Article intro - Open-H to support foundation models in surgical robotics
Coordinated by NVIDIA and the Hopkins folks, the Open-H-Embodiment Consortium made it available online our latest greatest feat (revised version): Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics Abstract Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medical robotics has been limited by a fundamental data problem: existing medical robotic datasets are small, single-embodiment, and rarely shared openly, restricting the development of foundation models that the field needs to advance. We introduce Open-H-Embodiment, the largest open dataset of medical robotic video with synchronized kinematics to date, spanning more than 49 institutions and multiple robotic platforms including the CMR Versius, Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci, da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK), Rob Surgical BiTrack, Virtual Incision's MI...
