"This robot is going to let the surgeons get a sense of touch again, a sense that we lost with traditional robotic surgery ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Mark Smolik, a Surgeon with the MercyOne Des Moines Bariatric Surgery Department, has hit a major career milestone — his 1,000th surgery using a robot. Dr. Smolik started ...

Robots have become a part of our daily lives, from robot vacuums to robot restaurant servers. There are even robotic cameras ...

As someone who doesn’t do well with the recovery downtime that comes with recovering from surgery, Caroline McCarty was happy to have an option for her ovarian cancer surgery that had a faster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Las Vegas-based spine surgeon reaches milestone following 16 years of robotic-assisted procedures across multiple surgical ...

Doctors at KIMS Hospitals, Kondapur, successfully treated a 10-year-old Hyderabad boy diagnosed with rare spinal cancer using ...