A tiny magnet-guided robot may transform drug delivery by targeting treatment with precision and reducing harsh side effects ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Mark Smolik, a Surgeon with the MercyOne Des Moines Bariatric Surgery Department, has hit a major career milestone — his 1,000th surgery using a robot. Dr. Smolik started ...

BALTIMORE — Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients’ bedside? Not exactly, but some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on patients ...

This robot doctor was designed to go and treat patients where human doctors can’t. “The medic could drive a robotic system to a location and perform a series of different kinds of triage tasks on that ...

Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon ...

Image: Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed in the UW’s BioRobotics Lab, weighs about 50 pounds. Its nimble appendages can suture wounds and perform minimally invasive surgeries. The surgical ...

A doctor in Florida has used a robot to remotely perform surgery on a cancer patient thousands of miles away in Africa. Vipul Patel, the medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Orlando's ...

In investing, the greatest advantage an investor can have is a long-term investment horizon. Warren Buffett once said, “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.” ...

Imagine a robot helping a doctor perform surgery with the precision of a machine and the care of a human hand. That’s exactly what’s happening at many hospitals in the UAE, where robotic surgery is ...

Nagpur: Robotic surgery will soon become standard of care in India and may replace laparoscopic procedures, said robotic cardiac surgery pioneer Dr Su.