Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, ...

Machine touted as first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act, envisioning a future of use inside human body.

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

The world of medicine is undergoing a seismic shift, thanks to the advent of microrobots that navigate through our bloodstream. Just like a scene out of a science fiction movie, these tiny robots have ...

Dr. Kornelis Poelstra is pioneering the future of spinal surgery with robotics — and he’s doing it right here in Southern ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

“Robotics and food are two separate worlds,” declared Dario Floreano, director of EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, in a response to the EU-funded RoboFood project. Yet their pairing is ...

Imagine a world where surgeons are guided by AI to perform complex operations with the precision of world-class experts and where life-saving surgery reaches remote corners of the globe through ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

A deep strain is running through hospitals around the country. There are not enough surgeons, and the shortage is growing.

Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic, MD, MHS, sits at the arcade-like console like a church organist. He places his feet on the machine’s pedals and slips the middle finger and thumb of each hand into delicate ...