From the 2 of 13 linked papers with an AI index.
13 papers
Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing
Emma Huang, Zih-Yun Chiu, Neelay Joglekar +2
The paper presents a robotic system that uses a suture thread as an assistive tool to pick up needles indirectly, enabling safe and reliable needle retrieval even when the needle i…
LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy
Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar +7
The paper presents LapSurgie, a teleoperated framework that uses a humanoid robot to perform laparoscopic surgery by mapping a surgeon's wrist motions to standard laparoscopic inst…
Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +1
Accurate and efficient tracking of surgical instruments is fundamental for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery. Although vision-based robot pose estimation has enabled marker…
The N2D Haptic Glove: A Multi-Finger Glove for 2D Directional Force Feedback for Contact Rich Manipulation
Yao-Ting Huang, Jake Honma, Omar Hernandez +4
Humans rely on directional fingertip forces to probe and regulate contact during manipulation, yet most wearable haptic gloves render only vibration or single-axis force, leaving f…
Feedback Matters: Augmenting Autonomous Dissection with Visual and Topological Feedback
Chung-Pang Wang, Changwei Chen, Xiao Liang +3
Autonomous surgical systems must adapt to highly dynamic environments where tissue properties and visual cues evolve rapidly. Central to such adaptability is feedback: the ability…
In-Hand Manipulation of Articulated Tools with Dexterous Robot Hands with Sim-to-Real Transfer
Soofiyan Atar, Daniel Huang, Florian Richter +1
Reinforcement learning (RL) and sim-to-real transfer have advanced rigid-object manipulation. However, policies remain brittle for articulated mechanisms due to contact-rich dynami…