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MACAW: Reliable And Efficient Surgical Debridement Using Monocular Adaptive Compact Attention Windows

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Augmenting the dexterity of human surgeons has the potential to free them from tedious subtasks. We consider debridement (removal of diseased or dead tissue fragments), which is challenging due to imprecision in spatial perception and cable actuation. We develop an augmented dexterity system for surgical debridement that uses visual servoing to align the cable-driven gripper with the target position in the image plane, and then introduces a novel approach to depth control, MACAW: Monocular Adaptive Compact Attention Windows. Across 100 physical trials using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) rob

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