ICRA 2026 Workshop - Schedule

ICRA 2026 Workshop

Schedule

08:40 - 08:50 Welcome and Introduction by the Organizers

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08:50 - 09:20 Federica Ferraguti
Trustworthy Robotic Assistance in Minimally Invasive Surgery
09:20 - 09:50 Hongliang Ren
Endoluminal Robotics & Embodied AI in vivo
09:50 - 10:20 Michael Yip
Are Humanoid Robots in Medicine Unrealistic or Are They Inevitable? A Technological Perspective
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10:20 - 10:35 Poster Presentation 1 (No.1-14)
10:35 - 11:05 Poster Session 1 and Coffee Break
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11:05 - 11:20 David Noonan
Collaborative Surgical Robotics in the Era of Embodied AI: The Maestro System
11:20 - 11:50 Fan Shao (Fanny Ficuciello)
Interaction-centred Autonomy for Surgical Robotics: Safe Shared Control in Contact-Rich Medical Tasks
11:50 -12:00 Paolo Fiorini
(Startup Presentation 1): AI and Robotics in Surgery: from Academia to MedTech
12:00 - 12:30 Christos Bergeles
Towards An Intelligent Robotic Endoscope Holder

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12:30 - 13:40 Lunch Break

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13:40 - 14:10 Mahdi Tavakoli
Enhancing Surgical Task Autonomy Through Simulations and Robot Learning
14:10 - 14:20 Axel Krieger
(Startup Presentation 2): The Path to Autonomous Surgery: Designing 'Driver-Assist' Systems for Expert Surgeons
14:20 - 14:50 Riccardo Muradore

AI-empowered Robotic Solutions for Semi-autonomous Surgery: Examples from Upper G.I. to Ophthalmology

14:50 - 15:05 Gerardo Mendizabal
Automation by Imitation: Capturing Embryologist Expertise for the Next Generation of IVF Robotics

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15:05 - 15:20 Poster Presentation 2 (No.15-29)
15:20 - 16:00 Poster Session 2, Coffee Break, and Best Poster Selection

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16:00 – 16:30 Elena De Momi
AI Hype or Something We Can Truly Rely on?
16:30 – 16:45 Lin Zhang
Towards the Future of Surgery: Exploring Digital Surgery and Surgical AI

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16:50 – 17:40 Panel Discussion, Q&A, and Poster Award

Poster Session 1

STUPID Robot: Safe Task Understanding and Planning with Interactive Dialog for Robotic HIFU Systems
Xiu Zhang, Alessandro Piccolo, Silvia Buratti, Junling Fu, Alessandro Diodato, Selene Tognarelli, Arianna Menciassi
Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability
Everest Yang, Skye Thompson, George D. Konidaris
A Study on a Semi-Autonomous Surgical Assistant Collaborative Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery
Taehoon Kim, Youqiang Zhang, Jongchan Mun, Sangrok Jin
Bio-Inspired 3D-Printable Continuum Robot: A Tendon-Driven Continuum Endoscope – Preliminary Cadaveric Trials for Colonoscopy
Md Modassir Firdaus, Madhu Vadali, Branesh M. Pillai, Chumpon Wilasrusmee
Egocentric Learning for Bimanual Surgical Manipulation
Eugenia Mawuenya Akpo, Shirui Lyu, Nicholas Raison, Christos Bergeles, Letizia Gionfrida
Physics-Informed CT-to-US Translation via Biomechanical Strain and Conditional Diffusion Models
Yizhao Qian, Jiayuan Luo, Li Liu
Toward Reliable Control of Two Section Continuum Robots
Ivan Adi Kuncara, Ayoung Hong
Vision-Based Soft-Tissue Deformation Tracking for Adaptive Surgical Robot Behavior
Gabriele Furnari, Elisa Iovene, Federica Ferraguti
Assessment of Workload and Ergonomics in Simulated Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy
Elisa Iovene, Deborah Cattafesta, Anna Emilia Candela, Vittorio Cuculo, Sara Moccia, Elena De Momi, Federica Ferraguti
A Perspective on the Use of Foundation Models in Surgical Data Science
Deborah Cattafesta, Mariachiara Di Cosmo, Federica Ferraguti, Simona Tiribelli, Sara Moccia
EndoDDC: Learning Sparse to Dense Reconstruction for Endoscopic Robotic Navigation via Diffusion Depth Completion
Yinheng Lin, Yiming Huang, Beilei Cui, Long Bai, Huxin Gao, Hongliang Ren, Jiewen Lai
Anatomical Landmark-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Gastric Navigation
Haoxuan Wu, Sishen Yuan, Haitao Gao, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren
Learning to Cut: A Structure-Aware Transformer for Autonomous Surgical Tumor Removal
Francesco Bigi, Gabriele Furnari, Elisa Iovene, Andrea Pupa, Cristian Secchi, Federica Ferraguti
Registration After Completion: Pose-Robust Completion for Sparse Partial Point Set Registration in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery
Xinzhe Du, Shixing Ma, Shuwei Shao, Max Q.-H. Meng, Zhe Min

Poster Session 2

Real-Time Frame-Level Confidence Estimation for Stereo Disparity in Endoscopic Imaging
Laura Cruciani, Sara Martuscelli, Matteo Magnani, Anna Emilia Candela, Elena De Momi
AnkleSurg: A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Robot Ankle Fracture Reduction Surgery
Catherine Abraham, Sean R. Anderson, Sanjeev Madan, Molly Kennedy, Sanja Dogramadzi
Automatic Generation of Virtual Fixtures from Digital Twin for Teleoperated Lung Ultrasound
Davide Nardi, Edoardo Lamon, Daniele Fontanelli, Matteo Saveriano, Luigi Palopoli
A Multifunctional Capsule and Magnetic Navigation Platform for Controlled Actuation and Task Execution in GI Environments
Razan Abu-Shaera, Shivam Gupta, Veerash Palanichamy, Onaizah Onaizah
Towards Autonomous Tape Handling for Robotic Wound Redressing
Xiao Liang, Lu Shen, Peihan Zhang, Soofiyan Atar, Florian Richter, Michael Yip
Feedback Matters: Augmenting Autonomous Dissection with Visual and Topological Feedback
Chung-Pang Wang, Changwei Chen, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar, Florian Richter, Michael Yip
Strategy-Supervised Autonomous Laparoscopic Camera Control via Event-Driven Graph Mining
Keyu Zhou, Yahao Wu, Shunlei Li
Continuously Multistable Mixed-Folded Tubes
Sagi Senderovich, Ezra Ben-Abu, Shai Elbaz, Nadav Zemah, Amir D. Gat
Gaze-Guided Robotic Vascular Ultrasound Leveraging Human Intention Estimation
Yuan Bi, Yang Su, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
Bioinspired Kirigami Capsule Robot for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Biopsy
Ruizhou Zhao, Yichen Chu, Shuwei Zhao, Wenchao Yue, Raymond Shing-Yan Tang, Hongliang Ren
See, Plan, Cut: MPC-Based Autonomous Volumetric Robotic Laser Surgery with OCT Guidance
Ravi Prakash, Vincent Y. Wang, Arpit Mishra, Devi Yuliarti, Pei Zhong, Ryan P. McNabb, Patrick J. Codd, Leila J. Bridgeman
DAISS: Phase-Aware Imitation Learning for Dual-Arm Robotic Ultrasound-Guided Interventions
Feng Li, Pei Liu, Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Nassir Navab
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Target Reaching in Intracardiac Catheter Navigation
Angela Peloso, Giulio Bella, Elena De Momi
Anatomy-Guided Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Learning Cross-Sectional Geometry Information
Bo Wang, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Elena De Momi, Junling Fu
Interactive Force-Impedance Control for Safe Contact-Rich Human–Robot Collaboration
Fan Shao, Fanny Ficuciello

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