SurgVLA-Bench: Towards Evaluating Vision-Language-Action Models for Laparoscopic Surgical Robotics
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a promising direction for embodied intelligence in surgical robotics. Despite the prevalence of VLA benchmarks for general robotics, standardized evaluation platforms specifically designed for surgical contexts remain absent. To address this limitation, we present SurgVLA-Bench, the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating VLA models in laparoscopic surgical robotics. Leveraging the SurRoL simulation platform, we construct a hierarchical task taxonomy ranging from atomic actions to complete surgical procedures, complemented by a multi-dimensional evaluation framework assessing action accuracy and semantic consistency. We then systematically evaluate two representative paradigms, including autoregressive models such as OpenVLA, and flow matching models such as $π_{0}$, $π_{0.5}$, and SmolVLA. Our experiments show that autoregressive models tend to excel in semantic understanding, while flow matching models often achieve higher task precision but may face generalization trade-offs. However, even the best-performing models remain far from satisfactory, as the constrained endoscopic field of view, restricted viewing angles, and frequent occlusions persist as fundamental physical bottlenecks. The code and data are available at https://github.com/VCL-HNU/SurgVLA
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