Research theme · part of Robotics and Semantic Systems
AI and Robotics in Medicine
Computer vision and autonomous robots in clinical settings, from surgical instrument tracking to robotized instrument handovers.
Computer vision and autonomous robots in clinical settings. The work spans perception and autonomy in the operating room: tracking surgical instruments, hands and tissue, and human-robot interaction and robot learning of interaction tasks.
One example is the CAISA project, which works on instrument handovers — passing an instrument between a robot and a surgeon at the right moment, in the right orientation, without the surgeon having to look away from the patient. The clinical work is carried out with paediatric surgery and paediatric cardiac surgery.
The work connects to the robot learning methods in Foundation Models and Visuomotor Policies and to the interaction side of Human-Robot Interaction & Collaborative Robotics.
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Artificial intelligence-supported segmentation of cardiac anatomy in open-heart surgery videos
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Getting a Grip: Learning Precise Robot-To-Human Handovers with Hand Pose Conditioning
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Last updated: 2026-11-10