Topics of Interest

 Detailed topics include, but are not limited to:

• Telerobotics and Teleoperation Control       
• Shared Control and Shared Autonomy for Assistance
• Learning Techniques for Assistance and Autonomous Surgery
• Computer Vision for Surgical Navigation and Context Awareness
• Surgical Workflow Recognition for Adaptive Robotic Assistance
• Multimodal Interaction Feedback in Robot-assisted Surgery, e.g., AR, Haptic, and LLM
• Foundation Models for Medical Robot Systems, e.g., VLM, and VLA
• Advanced Sensing, Robot Design, and Path Planning Approaches
• Evaluation of Cognitive Workloads and Ergonomics in Robot-assisted Surgery
• Safety, Clinical Applicability, and Ethical Considerations

Submission Guidelines

We invite the author to submit a PDF version of the abstract (up to 2 pages, following the ICRA double-column format). Each submission will undergo single-blind peer review by experts in the related field. Accepted submissions will be presented during the poster sessions and archived on the website. Please refer to the workshop website for detailed submission guidelines:

https://sites.google.com/view/icra26-workshop-medical-robot/home

Disclaimer

The copyright ownership of submissions remains with the respective authors. As the copyright holders, authors retain exclusive authority over their work, which encompasses the right to republish it in conferences or journals, reuse portions, and adapt it for future works.

Organizing committee

• Elena De Momi – Politecnico di Milano, Italy (elena.demomi@polimi.it)
• Christos Bergeles – King’s College London, UK (christos.bergeles@kcl.ac.uk)
• Junling Fu – Politecnico di Milano, Italy (junling.fu@polimi.it)
• Huanyu Tian – King’s College London, UK (huanyu.tian@kcl.ac.uk)
• Paolo Fiorini – University of Verona, Italy (paolo.fiorini@univr.it)  

Contact

All questions about submissions to the workshop can be emailed to junling.fu@polimi.it, huanyu.tian@kcl.ac.uk