Welcome to ASU MARGIN Lab
Welcome to the Medical Automation, Robotics and General Intelligence Lab (MARGIN Lab) at Arizona State University (ASU). Our mission is to advance intelligent healthcare technologies through cutting-edge research in surgical robotics, AI-driven perception, and medical device innovation.
We develop machine learning and robotic systems to support robotic-assisted and autonomous surgical tasks, including surgical scene understanding, identification and tracking of instruments, robots, tissues, and organs, and robotic manipulation, while also exploring smart medical tools for clinical environments. At MARGIN Lab, we strive to build intelligent systems that can collaborate seamlessly with clinicians and improve the safety, precision, reliability, and accessibility of healthcare.
We are always looking for passionate students students to join the team (more info) !
News
Jul/23/2025 – Paper SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery is available online.
May/28/2025 – Paper TwinTrack: Bridging Vision and Contact Physics for Real-Time Tracking of Unknown Dynamic Objects is available online.
May/19/2025 – We organize the Workshop on the Evolving Landscape of Surgical Robotics (ELSR) at ICRA 2025, Atlanta, USA.
Apr/2025 – Excited to have PhD student Jiajun Cheng join the lab!
Feb/2025 – Excited to have undergraduate student Leonardo Dayal join the lab!
Jan/2025 – Excited to have undergraduate student Spencer Romero join the lab!
Jan/2025 – Excited to have master's student Xianwu Zhao join the lab!
Jan/01/2025 – The Medical Automation, Robotics and General Intelligence Lab (MARGIN Lab) is established!
