Review possible WAM paper: Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning

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Paper

• Title: Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning
• Short name: Surgical WAM
• arXiv ID: 2608.11204v1
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11204
• Authors: Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen, Ser-Nam Lim, Peter D. Peng, Yuzhang Shang
• Published: 2026-08-11
• arXiv categories: cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV
• Matched keywords: WAM, world-action model

README Entry

- **Surgical WAM**: "Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning", arXiv 2026. ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Needs--Taxonomy--Review-64748b)
  [[📄 Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11204)]

Robot Decision

• Decision: pending
• Confidence: unknown
• Taxonomy: None
• Taxonomy confidence: None
• README heading: ## World Action Model
• Badges: https://img.shields.io/badge/Needs--Taxonomy--Review-64748b

Reason

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Evidence

• WAM
• world-action model

Needs taxonomy review: fallback README heading/badge was used because taxonomy.toml has no README mapping for this classification.

Human Review Checklist

• This paper belongs in the WAM survey
• README section is correct
• Badges are correct
• Short name is correct
• Paper link is correct
• Merge this PR if accepted