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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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SURGICAL papers(778)
Clear ✕Off-Axis Compliant RCM Joint with Near-Isotropic Stiffness and Minimal Parasitic Error
Federico Mariano, Elena De Momi, Giovanni Berselli +3 more
2026
A Position Statement on Endovascular Models and Effectiveness Metrics for Mechanical Thrombectomy Navigation, on behalf of the Stakeholder Taskforce for AI-assisted Robotic Thrombectomy (START)
Harry Robertshaw, Anna Barnes, Phil Blakelock +17 more
2026
HandVQA: Diagnosing and Improving Fine-Grained Spatial Reasoning about Hands in Vision-Language Models
MD Khalequzzaman Chowdhury Sayem, Mubarrat Tajoar Chowdhury, Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh +4 more
2026
Seeing Through Smoke: Surgical Desmoking for Improved Visual Perception
Jingpei Lu, Fengyi Jiang, Xiaorui Zhang +2 more
2026
SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation
Masoud Moghani, Mahdi Azizian, Animesh Garg +3 more
2026
arg-VU: Affordance Reasoning with Physics-Aware 3D Geometry for Visual Understanding in Robotic Surgery
Nan Xiao, Yunxin Fan, Farong Wang +1 more
2026
Characterization of Constraints in Flexible Unknown Environments
Samrat Bhattacharyya, Nabil Simaan
2026
EndoVGGT: GNN-Enhanced Depth Estimation for Surgical 3D Reconstruction
Falong Fan, Yi Xie, Arnis Lektauers +2 more
2026
PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals
Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern +3 more
2026
PhySe-RPO: Physics and Semantics Guided Relative Policy Optimization for Diffusion-Based Surgical Smoke Removal
Zining Fang, Cheng Xue, Chunhui Liu +3 more
2026
Instrument-Splatting++: Towards Controllable Surgical Instrument Digital Twin Using Gaussian Splatting
Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Chengjiaao Liao +5 more
2026
A vision-language model and platform for temporally mapping surgery from video
Dani Kiyasseh
2026
CataractSAM-2: A Domain-Adapted Model for Anterior Segment Surgery Segmentation and Scalable Ground-Truth Annotation
Mohammad Eslami, Dhanvinkumar Ganeshkumar, Saber Kazeminasab +8 more
2026
TiBCLaG: A Trigger-induced Bistable Compliant Laparoscopic Grasper
Joel J Nellikkunnel, Prabhat Kumar
2026
SutureFormer: Learning Surgical Trajectories via Goal-conditioned Offline RL in Pixel Space
Huanrong Liu, Chunlin Tian, Tongyu Jia +8 more
2026
Final Report for the Workshop on Robotics & AI in Medicine
Juan P Wachs
2026
Scalable Inspection Planning via Flow-based Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Adir Morgan, Kiril Solovey, Oren Salzman
2026
Surgical Robot, Path Planning, Joint Space, Riemannian Manifolds
Yoshiki Yamamoto, Maina Sogabe, Shunichi Hirahara +3 more
2026
Surgi-HDTMR: Closing the Sensorimotor Loop in Bimanual Microsurgery via Haptics, Digital Twin, and Mixed Reality
Songming Ping, Shaoyue Wen, Junhong Chen +3 more
2026
Towards Dynamic Model Identification and Gravity Compensation for the dVRK-Si Patient Side Manipulator
Haoying Zhou, Hao Yang, Brendan Burkhart +5 more
2026
Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization
Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +1 more
2026
Robotic Ultrasound Makes CBCT Alive
Feng Li, Ziyuan Li, Zhongliang Jiang +2 more
2026
SurgFed: Language-guided Multi-Task Federated Learning for Surgical Video Understanding
Zheng Fang, Ziwei Niu, Ziyue Wang +5 more
2026
TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room
Tony Danjun Wang, Ka Young Kim, Tolga Birdal +2 more
2026