McKenzie Health has a new employee, but it isn’t a human or even an organic one. The newest member of Watford City’s McKenzie Health team is the Mako knee replacement robot, which itself doesn’t even ...

A Tulsa-area patient says robotic surgery dramatically reduced his recovery time from hernia surgery, as doctors say the technology is improving outcomes for many common procedures.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Sturrock is the first of hundreds of patients to receive robot-assisted surgery at the Northern General Hospital [Sheffield ...

While providing the best care for their communities is a priority for health care systems, there are many tasks which can take doctors and nurses away from patients. Robots have been used at hospitals ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan's 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. "Luca, ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

In a major initiative targeting the reduction of healthcare workloads and the optimization of ...

A new frontier in medicine has come to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where robots are making the rounds. The ...

Yong Suk Lee, associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Facing high employee turnover and an aging ...

The robot doctor will see you now? Not for the foreseeable future, anyway. Medical robots today are pretty dumb, typically acting as extensions of a surgeon's hands rather than taking over for them.