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Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning

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arXiv:2608. 11204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning reliable surgical manipulation policies is bottlenecked by the scarcity of action-labeled demonstrations: teleoperated surgical robot (e.

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