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, ...

In popular culture depictions of surgery, a scalpel-wielding doctor usually cuts an abdomen wide open, before rootling around in a person’s viscera and depositing some organ onto a tray. But the ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital recently became the first in the Southeast to perform a kidney transplant using a robot. On Jan. 15, Drs. Michael Hanaway and Muhammad Rabbani ...

Elon Musk is sketching a future of work that looks nothing like the one most people are preparing for, from robot surgeons and radically longer lives to a world where saving for retirement "won't ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors' Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global platform and initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to ...