Robots trained by watching expert surgeons can now perform complex operations with little human help. This breakthrough is happening right now. For the first time, an autonomous surgical robot ...

CEO Massimiliano Colella delayed introducing the company’s soft tissue surgery system in the U.S. by a year but says the improved robot that is hitting the market now was worth the wait.

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

When Dr. Ankit Dhamija, cardiothoracic surgeon and director of thoracic robotic surgery at Stony Brook Medicine, did a recent operation, he started by standing near the patient, but not to “operate.” ...

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 ...

Robotic systems have emerged as a tool to assist surgeons in performing minimally invasive procedures in recent years. However, the adoption of robotic-assisted surgery has fallen behind in Canada.