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Learning Bimanual Laparoscopic Appendectomy Without Robot-Collected Demonstrations, Validated on Live Animals

The paper proposes an end-to-end pipeline that uses an instrument-state logger mounted on the shaft of a standard laparoscopic instrument (combining inertial, time-of-flight, and Hall sensors, with no external camera or tracker) to capture the instrument pose and jaw state during a surgeon's operation, which is then used to train a surgical robot policy and validated on live animals.

Part of the event: Bimanual surgical robot performs appendectomy in live rabbits without robot demonstrations

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