Jacob Rosen is developing a wearable robotic “exoskeleton” that could enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort. It’s a bit like the robotic armor that has long been a staple of ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

Cobionix Corp., a Canada-based medical robotics company, today announced it closed a $3 million funding round led by TitletownTech, a venture capital firm backed by Microsoft Corp. and the Green Bay ...

A tear in an ultra-fine blood vessel, just 100 microns wide — one tenth of a millimetre — must be meticulously repaired to restore blood flow to transplanted tissue taken from another part of the body ...

A Johns Hopkins University doctoral student is developing an AI-powered robot that could one day help first responders detect and treat life-threatening internal bleeding on the way to the hospital.

In Colorado, there are already robots that deliver food, map out tunnels and even diffuse bombs. The role of robots in our daily lives seems to know no bounds. The medical field is another space where ...

Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on ...

In a mature industry such as medical device manufacturing, companies can be lulled into thinking that they already have their patents and intellectual property issues covered. But Robert Lord, partner ...

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These ...