May 22, 2025 | Emissions, Healthcare
Smart policies addressing road transport emissions could save 1.9 million lives and prevent 1.4 million new children’s asthma cases worldwide by 2040, according to a new study. This translates to preventing 310 premature deaths and 230 new children’s...
Apr 17, 2025 | Healthcare, Robots
State-of-the-art robotic systems that can help remove tumours or replace a patient’s knee have been approved for use on the NHS in a move that could transform treatment for thousands of people in England. Adoption of the technology could lead to shorter stays in...
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...
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