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most citedSurgical Robot Transformer (SRT): Imitation Learning for Surgical Tasks

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cs.RO2026

Occupancy Network-Guided Autonomous Robotic Partial Nephrectomy

Ethan Kilmer, Pit Henrich, Jiawei Ge +13

Autonomous soft-tissue cancer surgery has been limited to interventions on organ surfaces, because current systems cannot perceive and adapt to anatomy once it deforms or is cut. W…

cs.RO2026

SurgVIL: Scaling Surgical Robot Imitation Learning with Open-source Surgical Videos

Xinhao Chen, JuoTung Chen, Nigel Nelson +4

Learning-based surgical robot autonomy requires large-scale demonstrations with synchronized videos and robot actions, but such data are exceedingly rare in clinical or realistic t…

cs.RO2026★ 1 cited

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.RO2025

SurgiPose: Estimating Surgical Tool Kinematics from Monocular Video for Surgical Robot Learning

Juo-Tung Chen, XinHao Chen, Ji Woong Kim +3

Imitation learning (IL) has shown immense promise in enabling autonomous dexterous manipulation, including learning surgical tasks. To fully unlock the potential of IL for surgery,…

cs.RO2025

Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: World Foundation Model-based Automated Online Evaluation of Surgical Robot Policy Learning

Lukas Zbinden, Nigel Nelson, Juo-Tung Chen +5

The rise of surgical robots and vision-language-action models has accelerated the development of autonomous surgical policies and efficient assessment strategies. However, evaluati…

cs.RO2025

SutureBot: A Precision Framework & Benchmark For Autonomous End-to-End Suturing

Jesse Haworth, Juo-Tung Chen, Nigel Nelson +4

Robotic suturing is a prototypical long-horizon dexterous manipulation task, requiring coordinated needle grasping, precise tissue penetration, and secure knot tying. Despite numer…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

SRT-H: A Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Surgery via Language Conditioned Imitation Learning

Ji Woong Kim, Juo-Tung Chen, Pascal Hansen +11

Research on autonomous surgery has largely focused on simple task automation in controlled environments. However, real-world surgical applications demand dexterous manipulation ove…

cs.RO2025

Towards Fluorescence-Guided Autonomous Robotic Partial Nephrectomy on Novel Tissue-Mimicking Hydrogel Phantoms

Ethan Kilmer, Joseph Chen, Jiawei Ge +7

Autonomous robotic systems hold potential for improving renal tumor resection accuracy and patient outcomes. We present a fluorescence-guided robotic system capable of planning and…

cs.RO2024

Tracking Tumors under Deformation from Partial Point Clouds using Occupancy Networks

Pit Henrich, Jiawei Liu, Jiawei Ge +5

To track tumors during surgery, information from preoperative CT scans is used to determine their position. However, as the surgeon operates, the tumor may be deformed which presen…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

Surgical Robot Transformer (SRT): Imitation Learning for Surgical Tasks

Ji Woong Kim, Tony Z. Zhao, Samuel Schmidgall +4

We explore whether surgical manipulation tasks can be learned on the da Vinci robot via imitation learning. However, the da Vinci system presents unique challenges which hinder str…

cs.RO2024

General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery

Samuel Schmidgall, Ji Woong Kim, Alan Kuntz +2

The dominant paradigm for end-to-end robot learning focuses on optimizing task-specific objectives that solve a single robotic problem such as picking up an object or reaching a ta…