News

Mar/12/2026 – Jessica Burgner-Kahrs and Lueder Alexander Kahrs visited MARGIN Lab.

Mar/11/2026 – Paper TrajPred: Trajectory-Conditioned Joint Embedding Prediction for Surgical Instrument-Tissue Interaction Recognition in Vision-Language Models is available online.

Jan/31/2026 – Paper TwinTrack: Bridging Vision and Contact Physics for Real-Time Tracking of Unknown Dynamic Objects is accepted by ICRA 2026.

Jan/30/2026 – Paper PalpAid: Multimodal Pneumatic Tactile Sensor for Tissue Palpation is accepted by RoboSoft 2026.

Nov/10/2025 – Paper SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery is accepted by WACV 2026.

Aug/21/2025 – Excited to have PhD student Haokai Xu join the lab!

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!