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  1. Forbidden Region Dynamic Active Constraints in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Aug 4, 2026Zejian Cui, Ferdinando Rodriguez y BaenaFeedback ControlPassivity-Based Control

    Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory, the Hamlyn Centre for Robotics Surgery, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

  2. EndoWAM: A Grounded World-Action Model for Generalizable Endoscopic Navigation

    Aug 2, 2026Jinsong Lin, Zikang Pan, Wanhao Liu +10World Models for RoboticsWorld Action Models

    CUHK · SLAI · WFU +3

  3. Endo-NeRF++: Uncertainty-Aware Neural Rendering with Multi-Resolution Hash Encoding for Dynamic Surgical Scene Reconstruction

    Jul 30, 2026Gousia Habib, Laura Ruotsalainen3D ReconstructionNeural Rendering

    Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

  4. Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling

    Jul 29, 2026Zhefeng Huang, Yilin Cai, Ankit Patel +3Robot Failure DetectionWorld Models

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

  5. Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Tleukhan Mussin, Yafei Ou, Mahdi TavakoliRL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  6. Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing

    Jul 28, 2026Emma Huang, Zih-Yun Chiu, Neelay Joglekar +2Robotic GraspingRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA. · CMU Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. +1

  7. Modular Robotic Catheters for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

    Jul 28, 2026Alex Ranne, Jinshi Zhao, Ali Anil Demircali +5Robotic Endovascular InterventionTendon-Driven Actuation

    Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bursa Uludag University, 16059, Bursa, Turkey +1

  8. Development of a Handheld Actuation Mechanism for a Tendon-driven Robotically Steered Guidewire

    Jul 27, 2026Saima Chavenet, Timothy A. Brumfiel, Revanth Konda +1Robotic Endovascular InterventionRobotics

    Medical Robotics and Automation (Robomed) Laboratory · Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  9. Learning-based Hierarchical Tracheal Anatomy Understanding from Sparse Surgical Demonstration Annotations for Ultrasound Robots

    Jul 24, 2026Hiu Ching Cheung, Wenchao Yue, Zhengran Han +4Ultrasound Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science and Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong, China +1

  10. RL-MACRO: A Cybernetic Closed-Loop Intelligence Framework for Multimodal Adaptive Robotic Craniotomy

    Jul 23, 2026Xiao Zhang, Jiaxuan Li, Renzhen Le +9Robotic ControlSurgical Robotics

    Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China · Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116024, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  11. Human-Inspired Framework for Robotic Craniotomy: Integrating Multimodal Fusion and Adaptive Trajectory Adjustment

    Jul 23, 2026Renzhen Le, Xiao Zhang, Di Wu +5Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  12. Interaction Dynamics Modeling and Predictive Control for Safe Steerable Catheter--Tissue Interaction

    Jul 23, 2026Yongyan CaoDynamical SystemsModel Predictive Control

    Voryx Robotic LLC, San Jose, CA 95136, USA

  13. Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space

    Jul 21, 2026Zicong Wu, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, S. M. Hadi Sadati +8Robot NavigationRobotic Insertion

    Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia 35131, Greece · School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom +2

  14. Bayesian Retraction Optimization for Tissue Attachment Mapping in Surgical Dissection

    Jul 21, 2026Shing-Hei Ho, Bao Thach, Toan Vo +2Safe Bayesian OptimizationSurgical Robotics

    The Robotics Center and the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA · School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA

  15. MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Jul 21, 2026Md Rakibul Islam Prince, Jaeeun Kim, Yuhao Zhou +9Vision-Based Tactile SensingTactile Sensing

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA +3

  16. Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability

    Jul 15, 2026Everest Yang, Skye Thompson, George D. KonidarisDeformable Object ManipulationRobot State Estimation

    Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

  17. Streamlining stereo differentiable rendering for marker-free real-time tracking of surgical robots

    Jul 14, 2026Yanghe Hao, Martin Huber, Christos Bergeles +1Differentiable RenderingVisual Object Tracking

    School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.

  18. A Compact Top-Loading Robot for Endovascular Interventions: Design, Control and Evaluation

    Jul 13, 2026Jonas Fischer, Lennart Karstensen, Franziska Mathis-UllrichRobotic Endovascular InterventionRobotic Manipulation

    Laboratory for Surgical Planning and Robot Cognition (SPARC), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen, 91052, Bavaria, Germany.

  19. Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions

    Jul 11, 2026Cem Suulker, Thomas Mack, Qingzheng Cong +4Soft RoboticsSurgical Robotics

    School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.

  20. Vascular Geometry Characterization for AI-Based Endovascular Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Han-Ru Wu, Harry Robertshaw, Lisa Dwyer-Joyce +2Reinforcement LearningMedical Image Analysis

    Department of Medical Imaging Science National Taiwan University Hospital Taiwan · Surgical & Interventional Engineering School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences Kings College London UK · Chelsea & Westminster Hospital UK

  21. Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery

    Jul 9, 2026Tianyi Song, Sierra Bonilla, Xinwei Ju +6Simultaneous Localization and Mapping3D Gaussian Splatting

    Department of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK · Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA

  22. 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.

  23. Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures

    Jul 8, 2026Benjamin Jackson, Nikola Fischer, Harry Robershaw +16Robot TeleoperationHuman-in-the-Loop Evaluation

    School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK

  24. SurgAM: Surgical Affordance Map Prediction with Multimodal Feature Fusion for Robot Autonomy

    Jul 5, 2026Lei Song, Yonghao Long, Mengya Xu +3Robotic PerceptionSurgical Robotics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China · Thoracic Oncology Institute, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China +3

  25. Learning Expert Strategy for Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Intervention via Decoupled Procedural Execution

    Jun 30, 2026Yanxi Chen, Tianliang Yao, Shaolong Tang +5RL for RoboticsHierarchical RL

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, and Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China +2

  26. Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning for Context-Aware Reward Modeling of Robotic Endovascular Guidewire Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Wentong Tian, Jiyuan Zhao, Tianliang Yao +4RL for RoboticsRobotic Endovascular Intervention

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China. · Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China. · Shanghai Operation Robot Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201318, China.

  27. SurgVLA-Bench: Towards Evaluating Vision-Language-Action Models for Laparoscopic Surgical Robotics

    Jun 28, 2026Jiashuo Sun, Yue He, Wenxuan Liu +4Vision-Language-Action ModelsRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, China · the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Hunan, China · the national graduate college for elite engineers, Hunan University, Hunan, China

  28. Real-Time Multimodal Activity-Aware Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery

    Jun 22, 2026Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh, Zongyu Li, Homa AlemzadehSurgical RoboticsMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

  29. BiliVLA: Scene-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model with Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Biliary Endoscopic Navigation

    Jun 22, 2026Jinsong Lin, Chi Kit Ng, Zhiyong Xiong +8EndoscopyVisuomotor Policy Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. +2

  30. A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots

    Jun 22, 2026Jing Zhang, Mengtang LiRobotic ControlRobotics Simulation

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China