Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe.

Fred Moll, the cofounder of $200 billion Intuitive Surgical, has invested in some 15 companies building robots that could ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

In recent years, healthcare has been witnessing an increasing integration of robotic systems, underscoring their growing potential to carry out complex ...

Tuodao Medical this week announced its launch as a developer of cutting-edge robotic solutions for intelligent medical care.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

The global healthcare system is expected to face a shortage of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, with burnout identified as a leading cause for this deficit. In response, Taiwan's hospitals are taking ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

“Robotics and food are two separate worlds,” declared Dario Floreano, director of EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, in a response to the EU-funded RoboFood project. Yet their pairing is ...