DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Mark Smolik, a Surgeon with the MercyOne Des Moines Bariatric Surgery Department, has hit a major career milestone — his 1,000th surgery using a robot. Dr. Smolik started ...

This robot doctor was designed to go and treat patients where human doctors can’t. “The medic could drive a robotic system to a location and perform a series of different kinds of triage tasks on that ...

Fred Moll, the cofounder of $200 billion Intuitive Surgical, has invested in some 15 companies building robots that could ...

BALTIMORE — Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients’ bedside? Not exactly, but some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on patients ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A new surgical robot at Sharp Memorial Hospital is giving doctors a better "feel" for the patient as they operate. Sharp is one of only 10 hospitals in the country with the Da Vinci ...

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

A group of doctors have begun training which will allow them to use robotic equipment to carry out surgery. They have been learning how to use the multi-million pound Da Vinci robotic surgery machine ...

A doctor in Florida has used a robot to remotely perform surgery on a cancer patient thousands of miles away in Africa. Vipul Patel, the medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Orlando's ...

Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon ...