Early uses of robots across VA hospitals have highlighted the promises and drawbacks of the technologies, but they have also shown the capabilities these tools can offer clinicians, according to ...

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

Sandra Cota’s world had grown quiet. The busy pace of her life had slowed in recent years, replaced by long days in her Bronx apartment where the low drone of the television filled the silence between ...

At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient's room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper's pixilated blue eyes ...

Charlotte, N.C.-based Levine Children’s Hospital has become the first U.S. hospital to use Gita robots to transport up to 40 pounds of cargo within hospital walls and enable contactless delivery, ...

PHOENIX — A hospital in Phoenix recently acquired two orthopedic robots for joint replacement surgery. The Mako SmartRobotics orthopedic robots were a $1.5 million investment for Abrazo Health’s ...

Robots are starting to gain something that looks a lot like a sense of touch, and in some cases even a crude version of pain. New neuromorphic artificial skin lets machines process tactile information ...

Hospitals are planning to ramp up the use of robots in the next one to three years -- and the momentum will include clinical applications as well as automating simple tasks. “Robots can deliver value ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but Alabama officials’ plan to use robots to improve care for rural pregnant women and their babies is real. During a January White House ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but Alabama officials' plan to use robots to improve care for rural pregnant women and their babies is real. During a January White House ...