Lab Life

SurGLab Wins 2nd Place at MICCAI 2026

Our team participated in the MultiBypass Surgical Action Triplet Challenge 2026, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2026 in Strasbourg, France, and was awarded Second Place.

Congratulations to Ihsan Ullah, Jonghyun Kang, and SeongWon Won  for their excellent teamwork and achievement.

DGIST Graduation ceremony,   August 14,   2026,   Congratulations!!

ACCAS 2026  at  Sinapore,   July 23–25, 2026

Humanoid Challenge — SurGLab Won Excellence Award,  July 2–3,  2026,   Congratulations !!

The 2026 Humanoid Challenge was organized to evaluate the real-world capabilities of humanoid robots for industrial manufacturing tasks. Twelve teams competed in the final round, performing four practical missions: component sorting, box transportation, part assembly, and wheel fastening, using both teleoperation and autonomous control.

SurGLab achieved the Excellence Award (2nd place overall), demonstrating strong performance in robot manipulation, autonomous task execution, and system integration.

ICRA 2026 – SurGLab Presented One Paper and Won Four Awards in the "AI for Robotic Surgery Challenge", Austria, June 1–5, 2026,   Big Congratulations to Team SurGLab! 

The AI for Robotic Surgery Challenge evaluated robotic manipulation skills using a modified version of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Peg Transfer task. Teams were challenged to transfer as many blocks as possible between designated pegs within a fixed time using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK). The competition included both autonomous AI and human teleoperation tracks in real and simulated environments.

SurGLab achieved outstanding results across multiple tracks:

Awards:

1st Place in Autonomous AI, Real dVRK

1st in Human Teleoperation, Real dVRK

2nd in Human Teleoperation, Sim dVRK
3rd in Human Teleoperation, Real dVRK 

Teacher's Day,   May 15,  2026,   Thank you,  SurGLab members! !

Humanoid Project — SurGLab Won Excellence Award,   April 10,  2026,  Congratulations !!

Intuitive Surgical Korea  visited  SurGLab for dVRK Research Collaboration,   November 20,  2025

Representatives from Intuitive Surgical Korea visited SurGLab to discuss collaboration in surgical robotics and AI-driven surgical automation.

Following this collaboration, DGIST received a da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) through the Intuitive Foundation. The dVRK is an open research platform based on the da Vinci surgical system, enabling direct access to robot control, software, and sensor data for research on surgical automation, precision manipulation, vision-based perception, and intelligent robot control.

With this donation, DGIST became the sixth institution in Asia to join the global dVRK research network, and the donation marked the third dVRK installation in Korea, following Seoul National University and Yonsei University. The dVRK community currently includes more than 30 universities and research institutions across 10 countries.

The platform will serve as a key research infrastructure for SurLab’s development of next-generation autonomous and intelligent surgical robotic systems.