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13 papers

cs.CV2026

EndoMD-SLAM: Endoscopic Gaussian Splatting SLAM under Optical Degradation with Memory and Static-Transient Decomposition

Nuo Chen, Kangqi Ni, Lulin Liu +5

Dense 3D reconstruction is critical for clinical endoscopic navigation and documentation. While Gaussian Splatting SLAM systems show promise in this domain, they fundamentally rely…

cs.RO2026

Geometry-Aware Visual Odometry for Bronchoscopic Navigation via High-Gain Observer Fusion

Mohammadreza Kasaei, Francis Xiatian Zhang, Feng Li +3

Navigational bronchoscopy is critical for pulmonary interventions, yet current platforms depend heavily on pre-operative CT or external sensors, limiting their use in critical care…

cs.RO2026

Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson +213

Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medic…

cs.RO2026

SE3Kit: A Lightweight Python Library for Specialized Geometric Primitives in Robotics

Daniyal Maroufi, Omid Rezayof, Farshid Alambeigi

The Python robotics ecosystem faces a challenge: while many libraries exist for rigid body transformations, few are both lightweight and mathematically strict. This paper introduce…

cs.RO2026

OpenRC: An Open-Source Robotic Colonoscopy Framework for Multimodal Data Acquisition and Autonomy Research

Siddhartha Kapuria, Mohammad Rafiee Javazm, Naruhiko Ikoma +4

Colorectal cancer screening critically depends on colonoscopy, yet existing platforms offer limited support for systematically studying the coupled dynamics of operator control, in…

cs.RO2026

A Single-Fiber Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR)-Based Shape Sensing of Concentric Tube Steerable Drilling Robots

Yash Kulkarni, Mobina Tavangarifard, Daniyal Maroufi +4

This paper introduces a novel shape-sensing approach for Concentric Tube Steerable Drilling Robots (CT-SDRs) based on Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR). Unlike traditio…