SurgiCLAW: An Interpretable Atomic-Skill Agent for Precision Robotic Micromanipulation
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arXiv:2606. 29247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a promising direction for embodied intelligence in surgical robotics.
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.
arXiv:2604. 21017v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision.
The paper proposes a method for distilling a vision‑based policy from a state‑based teacher policy in laparoscopic robotic manipulation. By using privileged state observations as a teacher, the vision policy learns from RGB images and proprioception, requiring fewer expert demonstrations than imitation learning and outperforming pure reinforcement learning. Experiments in simulation show that this distillation approach yields more consistent and stable performance across various surgical tasks.
AtomicVLA is a unified planning-and-execution framework that generates task-level plans, atomic skill abstractions, and fine-grained actions for robotic manipulation. It builds a scalable atomic skill library using a Skill‑Guided Mixture‑of‑Experts (SG‑MoE) and a flexible routing encoder that assigns new skills to dedicated experts, enabling continual learning. Experiments show that AtomicVLA outperforms baseline models on both simulated and real‑world long‑horizon tasks, achieving significant improvements in task performance and learning efficiency.
arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.