Jan 9, 2025 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
Patients are recovering quicker and receiving improved care, thanks to robotic assisted surgery, a hospital trust has said. More than 200 patients at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have had the surgery, which uses a system called Da Vinci XI,...
Nov 19, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
Researchers have developed a robot capable of performing surgical procedures with the same skill as human doctors by training it using videos of surgeries. The team from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities harnessed imitation learning, a technique that allowed the...
Nov 5, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts say, in a Science Robotics paper. Advances in generative AI and other areas could enable robots to assist human surgeons during certain tasks that require significant...
Oct 25, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
A group of scientists from Nanyang Technological University have developed grain-sized soft robots that can be guided by magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery. Published in Advanced Materials, the study presents the first documented example of tiny robots capable...
Oct 3, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
Anew robotic surgical tool has been developed. In a first-of-its-kind development, a robotic convoy was used to perform a minimally invasive endoscopic microsurgery. This was achieved using several millimeter-sized robots called TrainBots. The German...
Sep 12, 2024 | Healthcare, Robots
Researchers have created nanoscale robots which could be used to manage bleeds in the brain caused by aneurysms. The development could enable precise, relatively low-risk treatment of brain aneurysms, which cause around 500,000 deaths globally each year. The medical...
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