There are even surgical robots that doctors can control remotely, allowing hospitals in underserved areas to have access to skilled surgeons. A team of doctors at Johns Hopkins University has taken ...

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, ...

A groundbreaking achievement in robotic surgery has been made with a robot that not only listens to verbal instructions but also performs a complex procedure entirely on its own. For the first time, a ...

A robot has performed a realistic surgery for the first time without human help. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday that the robot had “unflappably” conducted a lengthy phase of a ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

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 ...

The machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

The Intuitive da Vinci 5 robot operates on a fake piece of skin used to practice stitches. The da Vinci robot, added to Sansum Clinic's Foothill Surgery Center, allows for more precise cuts and ...

Prostate cancer ranks as the most prevalent form of cancer among men, following only skin cancer in diagnosis frequency. Upon receiving a diagnosis, comprehending the available treatment options ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the US, aside from skin cancer. About 13% of male Americans will get it — and treatment often comes with the risk of erectile dysfunction. Relief ...

An estimated 10% of all future surgeries carried out at Maimonides Medical Center will be robot-assisted, thanks to the addition of three new-state of the-art machines in Brooklyn. The trio of Da ...