# Language-conditioned behavioral cloning for autonomous endoscope guidance

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/fbymtyhc3fhmhkfdhubrn2vj0
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41978

## Summary

The study proposes language-conditioned behavioral cloning for autonomous endoscope guidance, defining 6 clinically relevant guidance behaviors and collecting 235 subtask demonstrations. In preliminary phantom experiments, a single visuomotor policy achieved 100% success on focus, overview, and stop, 80% on search-tip and follow-tip, and 50% on horizon leveling. The authors note that the failure modes indicate more complex guidance tasks require temporal context.