Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills

K Goldberg, G Guthart - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
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[HTML][HTML] Generative ai in medicine and healthcare: Moving beyond the 'peak of inflated expectations'

P Zhang, J Shi, MN Kamel Boulos - Future Internet, 2024 - mdpi.com
The rapid development of specific-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Med-
PaLM, MEDITRON-70B, and Med-Gemini, has significantly impacted healthcare, offering …

Gp-vls: A general-purpose vision language model for surgery

S Schmidgall, J Cho, C Zakka, W Hiesinger - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Surgery requires comprehensive medical knowledge, visual assessment skills, and
procedural expertise. While recent surgical AI models have focused on solving task-specific …

General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery

S Schmidgall, JW Kim, A Kuntz, AE Ghazi… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
The dominant paradigm for end-to-end robot learning focuses on optimizing task-specific
objectives that solve a single robotic problem such as picking up an object or reaching a …

TidyBot++: An Open-Source Holonomic Mobile Manipulator for Robot Learning

J Wu, W Chong, R Holmberg, A Prasad, Y Gao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Exploiting the promise of recent advances in imitation learning for mobile manipulation will
require the collection of large numbers of human-guided demonstrations. This paper …

Agent laboratory: Using llm agents as research assistants

S Schmidgall, Y Su, Z Wang, X Sun, J Wu, X Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Historically, scientific discovery has been a lengthy and costly process, demanding
substantial time and resources from initial conception to final results. To accelerate scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive Compensation for Robotic Joint Failures Using Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning

TH Pham, G Aikins, T Truong, KD Nguyen - Algorithms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Robotic manipulators are widely used in various industries for complex and repetitive tasks.
However, they remain vulnerable to unexpected hardware failures. In this study, we address …

Towards Robust Automation of Surgical Systems via Digital Twin-based Scene Representations from Foundation Models

H Ding, L Seenivasan, H Shu, G Byrd, H Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language model-based (LLM) agents are emerging as a powerful enabler of robust
embodied intelligence due to their capability of planning complex action sequences. Sound …

Autonomous Image-to-Grasp Robotic Suturing Using Reliability-Driven Suture Thread Reconstruction

N Joglekar, F Liu, F Richter, MC Yip - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.16938, 2024 - arxiv.org
Automating suturing during robotically-assisted surgery reduces the burden on the operating
surgeon, enabling them to focus on making higher-level decisions rather than fatiguing …

Learning from Demonstration with Implicit Nonlinear Dynamics Models

PD Fagan, S Ramamoorthy - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.18768, 2024 - arxiv.org
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a useful paradigm for training policies that solve tasks
involving complex motions, such as those encountered in robotic manipulation. In practice …