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Surgical robotics is increasingly evolving from teleoperated devices toward intelligent and autonomous systems that can perceive, learn, reason, and collaborate with surgeons to support personalised interventional care delivery. Advances in perception, navigation, manipulation, and decision support are accelerating this transition, while artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly positioned to improve surgical quality, reduce clinicians’ workload, and enhance patient outcomes and experience. Research efforts are focused on bridging robotics and AI to advance surgical technologies through safer and smarter human–robot teaming, adaptive intelligence, collaboration, and progressive autonomy in the operating room.

This workshop will explore emerging research themes in intelligent surgical robotics, shared autonomy, and human–robot interaction, including intent capture, haptics, real-time state estimation, multimodal sensing and fusion, simulators and digital twins, and reproducible validation pathways from phantom studies to pre-clinical and clinical evaluation. The workshop will also address evaluation metrics, standards, benchmarks, safety requirements, governance, and responsible deployment frameworks needed to translate AI-enabled surgical robotics from laboratory demonstrations into clinically meaningful and trustworthy systems.

Discussion Topics

System Architectures for Collaborative Surgical Robots
End-to-end architectures for intelligent and collaborative surgical robotic systems, including pathways from teleoperation to shared autonomy and increasing levels of autonomy.
Learning-Based and Embodied Intelligence for Surgical Robotics

Learning-driven and embodied intelligence methods for surgical robot autonomy, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, constrained and risk-sensitive optimisation, uncertainty-aware policies, robust decision-making, perception–action coupling, physical interaction learning, and adaptive control under clinical constraints.

Human–Robot Interaction and Multimodal Interfaces
Human–robot interfaces for surgical collaboration, including multisensory perception, intent recognition, real-time sensing and estimation, feedback mechanisms, and the fusion of visual, haptic, tactile, and other intraoperative signals.
Planning, Control, and Shared Autonomy
Integration of planning and control for hierarchical decision-making, adjustable autonomy, shared autonomy, mixed-initiative control, and safe human–robot collaboration in surgical environments.
Clinical Translation and Deployment Requirements
Translational requirements beyond technical performance, including clinical workflow integration, safety cases, regulatory pathways, documentation, data governance, privacy, liability, accountability, and human factors standards.
Ethical, Trustworthy, and Responsible Surgical Robotics
Ethical and trustworthy deployment of intelligent surgical robots, including transparency, explainability, clinician oversight, patient safety, accountability, and responsible adoption of AI-enabled autonomy in surgical practice.

Call for Papers

We invite full abstract submissions presenting original research on mechanisms and integrated systems for intelligent healthcare robotics, particularly studies with demonstrated or prospective (pre-)clinical translation. Topics of interest include robot learning for safer and more intelligent healthcare procedures, multimodal perception and sensor fusion, human–robot teaming and shared autonomy, and the development and rigorous evaluation of medical skill training and assessment systems. Sample research topics and questions that would fit this workshop are listed on the 'Call for Papers' page. As a non-archival workshop, we also welcome recent published or submitted results on the relevant topics. The submissions will be reviewed, and if accepted, will be posted on the workshop website and presented during both our spotlight and poster sessions. Important information about paper submission:

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026, 11:59pm AoE
Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2026
Camera-ready submission: June 30, 2026, 11:59pm AoE
Workshop Date: July 13, 2026
Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bridgingaiandrobotic0
Paper Format: 2-4 pages (excluding references), single-blind RSS format