Hierarchical skill-based framework achieves high precision in robotic surgery by separating semantic decisions from low-level control

SurgiCLAW uses a multimodal language model to select atomic skills while deterministic controllers handle execution, achieving 88% task success in brain-machine-interface implantation trials.

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Angen Ye · junjie xie · Yujia Song · Junkai Huang · Dapeng Zhang

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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The authors propose SurgiCLAW, a hierarchical agent that confines a multimodal large language model (MLLM) to intraoperative visual understanding and atomic-skill selection, delegating physical execution to verifiable deterministic control programs.

The authors designed SurgiCLAW, a hierarchical framework for precision robotic micromanipulation.

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From Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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SurgiCLAW confines a multimodal language model to choosing atomic surgical skills while deterministic controllers execute them, achieving 94.6% accuracy and 88.0% real-robot success.

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