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  1. DASH: A da Vinci Adapter for Serial-link and Humanoid Robots as an Accessible Platform for Surgical Robotics Research

    Oct 5, 2026Sara Wickenhiser, Junrong Zhou, Zekai Liang +2Surgical RoboticsHealthcare Robotics

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA.

  2. RoboAssist: Interactive Human-Humanoid Planning for Long-Horizon Surgical Assistance

    Sep 30, 2026Jingwei Jia, Keyu Zhou, Jiewei Wang +7Robot SafetyHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. · Zhejiang University, China. · New York University, USA. +1

  3. AGRO-SUVIDE: Agentic Robotics for Surgical Viscoelastic Debridement

    Sep 28, 2026Shutong Jin, Ziyang Chen, Preethi Satish +4Robot Skill LearningAgentic AI for Robotics

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE 10044, Sweden. · Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA.

  4. MedVLA: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Framework for Closed-Loop Precision Medical Robot Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Junjie Xie, Angen Ye, Chuxuan He +2Robotic ControlRobotic Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China

  5. Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation

    Sep 15, 2026Christian Sternitzke, Sebastian Blumenthal, Lukas Kleedoerfer +2Mobile RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    TEDIRO Healthcare Robotics, Ehrenbergstr. 11, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany · MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme, Weimarer Str. 28, 98693 Ilmenau, Germany

  6. A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises

    Sep 11, 2026Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  7. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Assignment Under Distribution Shifts

    Aug 21, 2026Daniel Garces, Sara Castro, Adrian Haimovich +2Healthcare RoboticsMulti-Robot Task Allocation

    John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 150 Western Avenue, Boston, 02134, MA, USA · Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, 02215, MA, USA · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215, MA, USA +1

  8. Human-Centered Reflections on Care Robots: A Comparative Study of Caregiver Perspectives

    Aug 3, 2026Laura Londoño, Klaus Baumann, Abhinav Valada +1Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

    Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Theology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  9. In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery

    Jul 8, 2026Zekai Liang, Nikita Thareja, Peihan Zhang +7Robot TeleoperationSurgical Robotics

    Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA. · Department of Surgery, UC San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, 92037, CA, USA.

  10. Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots

    Jun 26, 2026Zhanxin Wu, Ruofei Tong, Jiaying Fang +1Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningAssistive Robotics

    Cornell University

  11. Exploration of Foundation Model-Based Robots in Patient and Elderly Care

    Jun 8, 2026Zhiwen Qiu, Wei Liu, Yuexing HaoHealthcare RoboticsRobot Foundation Models

    1Cornell University, Ithaca, 14850, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA · 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

  12. Perception of Social Robots as Communication Partners in Healthcare for Older Adults

    May 20, 2026Hana Yamamoto, Carlotta Julia Mayer, Charlotte Raithel +5Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Adenauerring 12, Karlsruhe, 76131, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. · Department of Robotics, Tohoku University, Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Miyagi, Japan. · Institute of Medical Psychology, Heidelberg University, Bergheimer Str. 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. +2

  13. Benchmarking the Safety of Large Language Models for Robotic Health Attendant Control

    Apr 29, 2026Mahiro Nakao, Kazuhiro TakemotoHealthcare RoboticsLanguage Model-Based Control

    Kyushu Institute of Technology Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan

  14. Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

    Apr 22, 2026Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson +213Surgical RoboticsWorld Models for Robotics

  15. Final Report, Center for Computer-Integrated Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, NSF ERC Cooperative Agreement EEC9731748, Volume 1

    Apr 7, 2026Russell H. Taylor, Gregory D. Hager, Ralph Etienne-Cummings. Eric Grimson +2Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

  16. Towards Considerate Human-Robot Coexistence: A Dual-Space Framework of Robot Design and Human Perception in Healthcare

    Apr 6, 2026Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Ruixiang Han +3Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

    Cornell Tech, New York, USA · Department of Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA · University of Maryland, College Park

  17. Towards Next-Generation Healthcare: A Survey of Medical Embodied AI for Perception, Decision-Making, and Action

    Apr 5, 2026Cheng Zhang, Qing Cai, Xingzheng Wu +6Healthcare RoboticsEmbodied AI

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266100, China · Innovation School of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China · School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China +4

  18. Influence of Gripper Design on Human Demonstration Quality for Robot Learning

    Mar 17, 2026Gina L. Georgadarellis, Natalija Beslic, Seonhun Lee +2Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 USA · Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 USA · Center for Personalized Health Monitoring, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003

  19. Beyond Cybathlon: On-demand Quadrupedal Assistance for People with Limited Mobility

    Mar 17, 2026Carmen Scheidemann, Andrei Cramariuc, Changan Chen +2Assistive RoboticsHealthcare Robotics

    ETH Zurich, Robotic Systems Lab, Zurich, Switzerland.

  20. HMR-1: Hierarchical Massage Robot with Vision-Language-Model for Embodied Healthcare

    Mar 9, 2026Rongtao Xu, Mingming Yu, Xiaofeng Han +7Healthcare RoboticsRobotics

    Spatiotemporal AI, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, China · The State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China +2

  21. An Open-Source Robotics Research Platform for Autonomous Laparoscopic Surgery

    Mar 9, 2026Ariel Rodriguez, Lorenzo Mazza, Martin Lelis +4Laparoscopic SurgerySurgical Robotics

    Department of Translational Surgical Oncology, NCT/UCC Dresden, a partnership between DKFZ, MF UKD, TUD, HZDR Dresden, Germany · Cluster of Excellence-CeTI, TUD, Germany · Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD, Germany

  22. Vision-Language System using Open-Source LLMs for Gestures in Medical Interpreter Robots

    Mar 5, 2026Thanh-Tung Ngo, Emma Murphy, Robert J. RossHealthcare RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Technological University Dublin Dublin, Ireland

  23. Give me scissors: Collision-Free Dual-Arm Surgical Assistive Robot for Instrument Delivery

    Mar 3, 2026Xuejin Luo, Shiquan Sun, Runshi Zhang +2Healthcare RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  24. Humanoid Robots as First Assistants in Endoscopic Surgery

    Feb 27, 2026Sue Min Cho, Jan Emily Mangulabnan, Han Zhang +7Healthcare RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. · NVIDIA Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA. · Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.