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  1. EndoRSI: Physical-Evidence-Driven Recursive Improvement of Endoscopic Robot Policies

    Oct 9, 2026Chi Kit Ng, Yidong Zhang, Tianchun Wu +4Robot Policy AdaptationAutonomous Research Agents

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  2. Multimodal Image-based Robotic Assistance and Guidance Environment (MIRAGE): A Novel Unified Framework for Surgical Navigation and Visualization

    Oct 8, 2026Ehsan Nasiri, Yi Zheng, Michael A. Kokko +4Surgical Robotics

    Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 15 Thayer Dr, Hanover, NH, USA

  3. Selectively Actuated Fiberbots for High-precision Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Oct 8, 2026Jinshi Zhao, Libaihe Tian, Alex Ranne +9RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK +1

  4. Image-Based Path-Planning for Navigation of Soft-Growing Robots in the Spinal Sub-Arachnoid Space

    Oct 8, 2026George Dimas, Panagiotis G. Kalozoumis, Panagiotis Vartholomeos +1Robot Motion PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

    Dept. of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, School of Science, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

  5. Hall Effect-Based Tactile Force Detection Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Oct 7, 2026Charles DeLorey, Michael Brockdorff, Adam Metcalf +3Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    STORM Lab, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  6. ProCut: Probabilistic Cutting Topology for Autonomous Electrosurgical Tissue Dissection

    Oct 5, 2026Xiao Liang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter +2Differentiable PhysicsSurgical Robotics

  7. STC-MPM: Coupled Deformation, Progressive Damage, and Cut Formation in Soft-Tissue Cutting

    Oct 5, 2026Kewei Zuo, Jiahe Chen, Ziao Kuang +2Material Point MethodMaterials Science

    Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  8. 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 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.

  9. Robust Surgical Robotic Instrument Tracking via Sequential Multi-Cue Fusion and Sim-to-Real Self-Training

    Oct 4, 2026Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +1Self-TrainingSim-to-Real Transfer

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

  10. Ex vivo breach detection using electrical conductivity during robotic pedicle drilling in the spine

    Oct 1, 2026Jorge Andrés Pérez Velásquez, François Teyssere, Thibault Chandanson +2Surgical Robotics

    ISIR, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7222, Inserm U1150, Place de Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France. · SpineGuard SA, 10 cours Louis Lumière, Vincennes, 94300, France. · LIB, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7371, Inserm U1146, 15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris, 75006, France.

  11. 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

  12. Drape-Compatible Tool-Tip Localization for Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instruments via UWB Carrier-Phase Ranging and Trocar-Constrained Geometry

    Sep 30, 2026Jinseok Lee, Dongho Yee, Minsung Kim +8Relative Pose EstimationSurgical Robotics

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University. +5

  13. CADeT: Causal-Aware Deformation Transmission for Indirect Robotic Manipulation of Soft Tissue

    Sep 29, 2026Junlei Hu, Dominic Jones, Pietro ValdastriDeformable Object ManipulationActive Sensing

    STORM Lab, Institute of Autonomous Systems and Sensing (IRASS), School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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

    Sep 28, 2026Shutong Jin, Ziyang Chen, Preethi Satish +4Robot Skill LearningRobotics

    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.

  15. SurgGMF: Fully Causal Gaussian Motion Forecasting for Anticipatory Surgical Scene Rendering

    Sep 28, 2026Jingqian Sun, Yichao Tang3D Gaussian SplattingNeural Rendering

    Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China

  16. Integrity Detection and Characterization of Malicious Injections in RAVEN II

    Sep 27, 2026Xingli Zhang, Diba Afroze, Fei Hu +1Surgical Robotics

    School of Computing and Informatics University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, USA

  17. Surgical Master Console Using General-Purpose Robot Arms and a Separable Articulated Distal Interface: Porcine In-Vivo Evaluation

    Sep 27, 2026Minsung Kim, Seonho Shim, Dongho Yee +9Surgical RoboticsRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. +6

  18. SurgFlow: 3D Object-Centric Contact Flow for Surgical Robot Manipulation

    Sep 27, 2026Changwei Chen, Xiao Liang, Yinuo Yang +6Robotic ManipulationSurgical Robotics

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

  19. Humanoids for Robot-Assisted Surgery: Bimanual Base Placement and Tool-Mount Optimization via Capability Maps

    Sep 27, 2026Peihan Zhang, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter +4Surgical RoboticsHumanoid Robotics

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

  20. PICO: Projection-Informed Consistency Optimisation for 6DoF Surgical Tool Pose Estimation

    Sep 25, 2026Lucy Fothergill, Pietro Valdastri, Dominic Jones +1Object Pose EstimationSurgical Robotics

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds. · School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.

  21. Anatomy-Aware Dexterity-Driven Design Optimization of Surgical Continuum Robots

    Sep 25, 2026Tony Qin, Peter Connor, Khoa Dang +4RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University · Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  22. Surgical Kinematics from Monocular Video with Learned Articulated Motion Constraints

    Sep 23, 2026Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, Soham Samal, Zoran KosticArticulated Object ReconstructionObject Pose Estimation

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  23. Fine Wrist Control as a Marker of Surgical Teleoperation Expertise

    Sep 22, 2026Mary Kate Gale, Shujiro Shobayashi, Sangeet Satpathy +3Robot TeleoperationSurgical Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. · Robotics Program, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

  24. Design and Modeling of a Single-Port Three-Arm Robotic Tool for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

    Sep 22, 2026Nazia H. Dana, Harith S. Gallage, Ismail A. Auta +2RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    Robotics and Healthcare Systems (RoboHS) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV, USA

  25. Contact-Stable Deformable Tissue Simulation Using Implicit Integration and Live-Pose Grasp Constraints for Laparoscopic Surgery Robot Policy Evaluation

    Sep 22, 2026Juahn Oh, Dongho Yee, Jinseok Lee +9Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Eulji University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. +6

  26. From Instrument-Mounted Demonstrations to In-Vivo Execution: Learning Bimanual Laparoscopic Appendectomy Without Robot-Collected Demonstrations

    Sep 22, 2026Dongho Yee, Juahn Oh, Jinseok Lee +10Bimanual Robotic ManipulationLearning from Demonstration

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University +8

  27. Recording Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instrument Motion in the Operating Room: Magnetometer-Free Fusion of Inertial, Range and Visual Sensing

    Sep 22, 2026Jiyul Lee, Dongho Yee, Juahn Oh +9Object Pose EstimationSurgical Robotics

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. +6

  28. Digital Twin-Driven VR Teleoperation with Multi-View Spatial Perception for Surgical Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Chang Liu, Chenhao Yu, Honghao Zhao +5Virtual RealityDigital Twins

    Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  29. HumynexSurg-1: A Curated Expert Liposuction Dataset

    Sep 20, 2026Rhea Huang, David L. Matlock, Laurence ReichRobotic Data CollectionRobotic Manipulation

    Humynex Robotics, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA

  30. Object-Centered Reconstruction for Vision-Based 3D Force Estimation

    Sep 20, 2026Zhonghao Zhang, Mingyeung Wu, Hao Yang +33D ReconstructionSurgical Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States. · Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.