Enhancing Surgical Robots with Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning

Understand

Ultrasound robots are increasingly used in medical diagnostics and early disease screening.

• However, current ultrasound robots lack the intelligence to understand human intentions and instructions, hindering autonomous ultrasound scanning.
• To solve this problem, we propose a novel Ultrasound Embodied Intelligence system that equips ultrasound robots with the large language model (LLM) and domain knowledge, thereby improving the efficiency of ultrasound robots.
• Specifically, we first design an ultrasound operation knowledge database to add expertise in ultrasound scanning to the LLM, enabling the LLM to perform precise motion planning.