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 ...

An active 62-year-old Rockford man’s life took a turn when he received the news he needed heart surgery. But, what he didn’t ...

BALTIMORE — Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients’ bedside? Not exactly, but some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on patients ...

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 ...

Surgeons in Houston successfully completed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S. on a 45-year-old man. Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center said doctors performed the entire procedure ...

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 ...

For years, Dr. Rooma Sinha, a senior gynaecologist at Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, has been using robotic surgery to treat patients with greater accuracy, safety, and faster recovery time. Unlike ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — A Mercy Joplin doctor is marking a major milestone—1,000 robot-assisted surgeries. Dr. Heath Merkley has done that since first joining Mercy in 2016. The robot he works with has four ...

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 ...

Doctors at Main Line Health now have a new kind of robotic surgery that makes recovery quicker and easier for lung cancer patients. Traditional lung cancer surgery usually involves some pain and a ...

ONE WANTS TO HAVE SURGERY, RIGHT? THE LARGE INCISIONS AND THE LONG RECOVERY PROCESS. IT’S A NO, THANK YOU. FOR MOST PEOPLE. BUT TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING ALL OF THAT. AS 11 NEWS ANCHOR, LACEE GRIFFITH ...