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New system enables multimodal data acquisition for robotic surgery research

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Researchers have developed MiDAS, an open-source system for acquiring multimodal data in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). This platform-agnostic system integrates hand tracking, foot pedal sensing, and surgical video capture without needing proprietary robot interfaces. The system was validated on the Raven-II and da Vinci Xi platforms, demonstrating that external sensing can closely approximate internal robot kinematics and achieve comparable gesture recognition performance. AI

IMPACT Enables more reproducible research in surgical robotics by providing open access to multimodal data.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Keshara Weerasinghe (MD), Seyed Hamid Reza Roodabeh (MD), Andrew Hawkins (MD), Zhaomeng Zhang, Zachary Schrader, Homa Alemzadeh ·

    MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

    arXiv:2602.12407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data, yet access to proprietary robot telemetry remains a major barrier. We introduce MiDAS, an open-source, platform-…

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