Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

TL;DR

This paper introduces Open-H-Embodiment, the largest open dataset of medical robotic videos with synchronized kinematics, enabling the development of foundation models for medical robotics.

Contribution

It provides a large-scale, multi-embodiment dataset and demonstrates two novel foundation models for vision-language-action and world modeling in medical robotics.

Findings

GR00T-H achieved 25% success on suturing benchmark, outperforming others.

Cosmos-H-Surgical-Simulator enables multi-embodiment surgical simulation from a single checkpoint.

The dataset spans over 49 institutions and multiple robotic platforms.

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 MIRA, Moon Surgical Maestro, and a variety of custom systems, spanning surgical manipulation, robotic ultrasound, and endoscopy procedures. We demonstrate the research enabled by this dataset through two foundation models. GR00T-H is the first open foundation vision-language-action model for medical robotics, which is the only evaluated model to achieve full end-to-end task completion on a structured suturing benchmark (25% of trials vs. 0% for all others) and achieves 64% average success across a 29-step ex vivo suturing sequence. We also train Cosmos-H-Surgical-Simulator, the first action-conditioned world model to enable multi-embodiment surgical simulation from a single checkpoint, spanning nine robotic platforms and supporting in silico policy evaluation and synthetic data generation for the medical domain. These results suggest that open, large-scale medical robot data collection can serve as critical infrastructure for the research community, enabling advances in robot learning, world modeling, and beyond.