2 papers
cs.RO2026
SurgWMBench: A Vision-Based Benchmark for World-Modeling Surgical Instrument Motion Planning
Huanrong Liu, Weiliang Huang, Bob Zhang +3
Reliable surgical planning requires models that move beyond recognizing the current surgical step or imitating expert demonstrations, and instead anticipate how instrument motion r…
cs.RO2026
SutureFormer: Learning Surgical Trajectories via Goal-conditioned Offline RL in Pixel Space
Huanrong Liu, Chunlin Tian, Tongyu Jia +8
Predicting surgical needle trajectories from endoscopic video is critical for robot-assisted suturing, enabling anticipatory planning, real-time guidance, and safer motion executio…