Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became ...

The robot successfully removed eight gallbladders from eight different pig cadavers, without any instruction or intervention from humans.

Associate Professor Caleb Rucker and a team from the University of Tennessee are part of a landmark, multi-institution surgical robot project that received up to $12 million in funding from the ...

Credit: John Hopkins University/Cover Images A surgical robot trained using videos of real procedures has successfully ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have had a surgical robot remove a gall bladder from a dead pig largely autonomously. The robot had previously learned the procedure from videos. During the ...

Robots have been found in the operating suite since the 1980s for tasks such as holding a patient’s limbs in place, and later for laparoscopic surgery, in which surgeons can use remote ...

Intuitive Surgical is showing off the remote capability of its robots, with a transatlantic demonstration hosted by the ...

The AAMC projects that the world will face a shortage of surgeons across subspecialties (general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery) of between 15,800 and 30,200 by 2034.

One of the standout features tested was four-arm robotic surgery, where three instruments and a camera are used simultaneously. This approach, not possible with most current multi-port systems ...

Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit—albeit on rubber bands.

HCA Florida Palms West Hospital announces $80 million patient project for robotic surgery. Updated: 10:48 AM EDT Mar 29, 2024 Editorial Standards ...

The robot offers several features that, theoretically at least, improve on hand-driven surgery. For example, it can transform a large motion by the operator into a small motion at the instrument tip.