AI RESEARCH

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

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2602.12407v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Background: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) research increasingly relies on multimodal data, yet access to Methods: MiDAS integrates electromagnetic and RGB-D hand tracking, foot pedal sensing, and surgical video capturing without requiring Results: External hand and foot sensing closely approximated internal robot kinematics and non-invasive motion signals achieved gesture recognition performance comparable to