As a bystander watching Dr. Shankar Raman work, you might think he’s playing a video game. Each hand is on a controller. He’s ...

OSN Section Editor Uday Devgan, MD, performed the first robotic-assisted cataract surgery, according to a press release from ...

A robot has performed a realistic surgery for the first time without human help. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday that the robot had “unflappably” conducted a lengthy phase of a ...

It might sound futuristic, but it’s happening now. At hospitals across Yorkshire, robots are assisting surgeons to carry out ...

The machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...

Doctors used to be the gold standard of job security. After all, you can't outsource a heart transplant to a chatbot… right? But according to Elon Musk, even the most elite surgeons might want to ...

Robots that have been taught through AI could perform surgery on humans in the next decade after successfully operating on pigs. A robot arm has been able to remove the gall bladder from a swine with ...

One by one, the surgical robots are marching into Tucson, now working at three hospitals, taking over the job of a surgeon's skilled hands. As they do, Tucson gradually is joining what may be one of ...

The first autonomous surgery guided by artificial intelligence is performed in Chile. Photo courtesy of Levita Magnetics SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 12 (UPI) --Surgeons in Chile performed a pioneering ...

University of Iowa Health Care added three new surgical robots, expanding robotic surgery capacity by an estimated one thousand operations per year and effectively doubling the current capacity. UIHC ...

Thanks to the largest gift in its 36-year history – a $7.5 million donation – the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is launching a new campaign to bring cutting-edge surgical robots to Greater Victoria.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Pentagon is awarding $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" designed to use robots to perform full scalpel-and-stitch surgeries on wounded soldiers in ...