In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the need to open the chest.

An open house at Northwest Health Porter gave the public the chance to check out robotic surgeries and their benefits.

A patient in Angola was the first in a groundbreaking human clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test transcontinental robotic telesurgery.

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient – the first reported in the United States. Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon ...

Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone" with successful gallbladder removal procedures in lifelike settings ...

Recent analyses have shown that da Vinci robotic surgery achieves a 99% reliability rate, with technical issues rarely affecting patient outcomes.

NICE has conditionally approved 11 robotic surgery systems for NHS use, with evidence collection required before wider adoption can proceed.