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most citedDeep Reinforcement Learning in Surgical Robotics: Enhancing the Automation Level

7 citations · 7 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2026

SynthICL: Scalable In-context Imitation Learning with Synthetic Data

Cheng Qian, Ruomeng Fan, Yifei Ren +2

In-context imitation learning (ICIL) enables robots to learn new tasks from a small number of demonstrations by conditioning a pre-trained policy on task-specific examples, without…

cs.RO2026

Instant-Fold: In-Context Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward Johns

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is challenging due to high-dimensional, partially observable states that evolve through long-horizon, topology-changing interactions with multi…

cs.RO2026

TransDex: Pre-training Visuo-Tactile Policy with Point Cloud Reconstruction for Dexterous Manipulation of Transparent Objects

Fengguan Li, Yifan Ma, Chen Qian +2

Dexterous manipulation enables complex tasks but suffers from self-occlusion, severe depth noise, and depth information loss when manipulating transparent objects. To solve this pr…

cs.RO2025

Dexterous Robotic Piano Playing at Scale

Le Chen, Yi Zhao, Jan Schneider +7

Endowing robot hands with human-level dexterity has been a long-standing goal in robotics. Bimanual robotic piano playing represents a particularly challenging task: it is high-dim…

cs.RO2025

Observer-Actor: Active Vision Imitation Learning with Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting

Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Ruomeng Fan +1

We propose Observer Actor (ObAct), a novel framework for active vision imitation learning in which the observer moves to optimal visual observations for the actor. We study ObAct o…

cs.RO2025

Dense-Jump Flow Matching with Non-Uniform Time Scheduling for Robotic Policies: Mitigating Multi-Step Inference Degradation

Zidong Chen, Zihao Guo, Peng Wang +3

Flow matching has emerged as a competitive framework for learning high-quality generative policies in robotics; however, we find that generalisation arises and saturates early alon…

cs.RO2025

ReSemAct: Advancing Fine-Grained Robotic Manipulation via Semantic Structuring and Affordance Refinement

Chenyu Su, Weiwei Shang, Chen Qian +2

Fine-grained robotic manipulation requires grounding natural language into appropriate affordance targets. However, most existing methods driven by foundation models often compress…

cs.CV2024

PianoMime: Learning a Generalist, Dexterous Piano Player from Internet Demonstrations

Cheng Qian, Julen Urain, Kevin Zakka +1

In this work, we introduce PianoMime, a framework for training a piano-playing agent using internet demonstrations. The internet is a promising source of large-scale demonstrations…

cs.RO2024

Autonomous Path Planning for Intercostal Robotic Ultrasound Imaging Using Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Bi, Cheng Qian, Zhicheng Zhang +2

Ultrasound (US) has been widely used in daily clinical practice for screening internal organs and guiding interventions. However, due to the acoustic shadow cast by the subcutaneou…

cs.RO2023★ 7 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Surgical Robotics: Enhancing the Automation Level

Cheng Qian, Hongliang Ren

Surgical robotics is a rapidly evolving field that is transforming the landscape of surgeries. Surgical robots have been shown to enhance precision, minimize invasiveness, and alle…