# Sensorium: An open-source multimodal data collection and curation library for embodied surgical AI

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/thc9t1ned1njktkedd624w2ow
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41946

## Summary

The authors released Sensorium, an open-source Python library built on ROS and ROS2 middleware that records, processes, annotates, and curates multimodal surgical data from configurable robot and sensor streams, covering operator-side acquisition, configurable processing, semantic annotation, and episodic dataset generation. The library was evaluated on 1516 recordings of phantom, ex vivo, and in vivo porcine experiments involving multiple surgical tasks and sensing configurations, with preliminary usability feedback reported.