Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic surgical system such as the one pictured here was trained by Johns Hopkins researchers to successfully perform lengthy ...

"Your robot surgeon will see you now." We might not be too far off from that statement. And it might both reduce health care costs and increase availability.

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

Brain surgery refers to any operation on the brain. It is almost always a major surgery due to the brain’s delicate and highly complex structure. There are several types of brain surgery. Recovery ...

A repair robot that takes inspiration from the bendiness and sensing ability of snakes to access hard-to-reach places in harsh, industrial environments is now being exploited for use in human surgery.

A robot has successfully performed difficult, soft-tissue surgery on four pigs, Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday, calling this "a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans." The ...

A newly developed robot is capable of performing soft-tissue surgery, and indeed performed better on tests than a human surgeon. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9 (UPI) --Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone" with successful gallbladder removal ...