Folding cranes with laparoscopic surgical tools is a training exercise for surgeons.[1] (There are many sped up TikTok versions of this. This is the original, from this paper.[2].) This would be a great robotics project.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-AWu37xDwEHTDSmfManDrLzw3Tv...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11235411/