One trope shared among all the fictional depictions of a futuristic robot uprising is the idea that, because we’ve taught robots so much about how humans function, … ...

A soft robot inserted through a hole in the skull can deploy six sensor-filled legs on the surface of the brain to monitor electrical activity. The design has been tested in miniature pigs and ...

The robot has seven axes of motion, to enable all possible angles, but remains compact, low-weight and accurate. To devise the robot arm, TU/e PhD student Jordan Bos visited twenty skull base ...

Indeed, Weber’s research had a laser focus: he and his team created a robot perfectly designed to drill a very thin tunnel into a human skull. In theory, their robot could be applied to other ...

The University of Utah has developed an automated drill for cranial surgery. It can cut an opening in the skull in just 2.5 minutes. That's a massive 50x faster than a human surgeon.

A drill-wielding robot that bores into your skull for a quick spot of impromptu brain surgery sounds like a scene from a future sci-fi dystopia, in which AI treats Earth’s surviving humans like ...

Sophia the robot might not have a heart or brain, but it does have Saudi Arabian citizenship. As of October 25, Sophia is the first robot in history to be a full citizen of a country. Sophia was ...