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 ...

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 ...

World's first approved cerebrovascular robot could reduce harmful radiation exposure to doctors while shaving minutes off ...

New advancements to robotic surgery systems are changing how doctors perform procedures and how quickly patients recover.

Doctors at Manipal Hospital perform a world-first robotic pancreatic surgery on a 1-month-old infant. Read how advanced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months ...

Jami Greer was waiting for her 12-year-old daughter to come out of surgery when she received a confusing text: “The robot has docked.” Mia Greer, a patient at UF Health, had already received ...

A surgeon in London has successfully performed the UK's first long-distance robotic surgery on a patient in Gibraltar.

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 ...

Robot-assisted orthopedic surgery enables surgeons to plan surgeries with a level of accuracy that had been difficult before.

Marshall Medical Center is expanding its use of the da Vinci Surgical System to include gynecological procedures. This technology, already used for general surgery and urology, is helping patients rec ...