A Giant Leap for Surgical Robots In what could mark a turning point for medicine, an autonomous robot has managed to perform ...

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two live gallbladder surgeries on pigs, marking a first for general-purpose machines in the operating room.

"Your robot surgeon will see you now." We might not be too far off from that statement. And it might both reduce health care costs and increase availability.

Technological advances in the health industry are some of my favourites for how far out into science fiction they often seem. It's where we see cool developments on incredulous things like BCIs with ...

Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled ...

Surgeons at UC San Diego just handed the scalpel to two humanoid robots, who went on to complete live surgical procedures for the first time in history. This milestone moves beyond the fixed robotic ...

Elon Musk has recently touted an audacious vision for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot, positing that it could supplant most human surgeons within three years and surpass even the most elite ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...