A SURGICAL robot that can change its shape to skirt safely around vital organs and navigate inside arteries could one day spare cardiac patients the risks of open heart surgery. The instruments ...

When performing keyhole surgery, the instruments come in one of two varieties: long and straight and not very maneuverable, or extremely flexible and not very useful -- but this is about to change.

For cardiac patients, repair of defects often requires open-heart surgery and temporary paralysis of the organ. But a set of robotic tools developed by researchers at ...

Caleb Rucker, an associate professor and B. Ray Thompson Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and a team from the University of Tennessee are part of a ...

Experts developed an innovative surgical robot specializing in removing brain tumors in children, thanks to its distinctive feature-hollow arms. Experts developed an innovative surgical robot ...

As part of the UK’s first ever Robotics Week, a competition is underway that gathers the world’s pioneering researchers in robotic surgery. Individuals are being invited to put their innovative work ...

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Virtuoso Surgical Inc., a Nashville-based surgical robotics company, today announced the first-in-human use of its Virtuoso system, ushering in a new era of precision and minimally invasive options ...

A surgical robot that can change its shape to skirt safely around vital organs and navigate inside arteries could one day spare cardiac patients the risks of open heart surgery. The instruments ...