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Wenpeng Gao is a leading researcher in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), with a focus on force sensing, surgical instrument design, and intelligent imaging. His most cited work, a 2015 paper on a miniature 6-axis force/torque sensor for force feedback in RMIS (24 citations), addresses the critical challenge of restoring tactile information to surgeons during delicate operations. Building on this, he developed a novel 4-DOF surgical grasper with modular joints and integrated 6-axis force sensing (2016, 16 citations), enabling safer tissue manipulation. Gao also contributed to the dimensional synthesis of a spherical remote center motion mechanism for a modular MIS robot (2018, 5 citations), optimizing kinematic performance for clinical use. Most recently, his 2024 work introduces a smoke attention-based laparoscopic image desmoking network with hybrid guided embedding (2 citations), tackling the problem of surgical smoke obscuring vision during autonomous RMIS procedures. With a career spanning foundational hardware innovations to cutting-edge AI-driven solutions, Gao’s research directly improves surgical precision, safety, and autonomy, making him a key figure in advancing next-generation robotic surgery.