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Miniature Medical Robots Step Out from Sci-Fi

Tiny machines that deliver therapeutic payloads to precise locations in the body are the stuff of science fiction. But some researchers are trying to turn them into a clinical reality. Cancer drugs usually take a scattergun approach. Chemotherapies inevitably hit...

Walgreens Turns to Robots to Fill Prescriptions

Inside of a large facility in the Dallas area, they fill thousands of prescriptions for customers who take medications to manage or treat high blood pressure, diabetes or other conditions. Each robot can fill 300 prescriptions in an hour, the company said — roughly...

US Investigating AV Company’s Crash Report

A small maker of autonomous vehicle systems could be in hot water with U.S. highway safety regulators over how much time elapsed before it reported the crash of one of its test vehicles last fall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents...