Medtronic’s Hugo robotic surgery system earns FDA clearance, ending Intuitive’s long-held dominance and reshaping the future of soft-tissue robotics.

Fred Moll, the cofounder of $200 billion Intuitive Surgical, has invested in some 15 companies building robots that could ...

Following concerns that Medtronic was overspending on the high-tech system and not developing it fast enough, FDA clearance ...

Dr. Christopher Ellington, a thoracic surgeon at Ascension Sacred Heart, is the only doctor in the Pensacola area performing ...

Minimally invasive robot-assisted pars fracture surgery enabled most adolescent patients to return to sports in as little as six weeks, researchers with New York City-based Hospital for Special ...

Prescribed burn scheduled for Wednesday at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound If Hobe Sound residents see smoke rising into the air on Wednesday, it’s due to a prescribed burn being conducted ...

Robotic-assisted surgery allows surgeons to operate with greater precision using a high-definition, 3D view. The surgeon remains in full control of the robotic instruments from a console during the ...

Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci surgical robot is an industry leader in one specific area. Medtronic offers both a surgical robot and a more diverse business beyond it. Moreover, Medtronic is working to ...

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

Balloons and applause met Dr. Makoto Hashimoto as he arrived for his 100 th robotic cardiac surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. The milestone—achieved just months after the ...

What happens when you combine the expensive disappointment of bipedal robots with the ethical minefield of brain interface devices? Apparently we’re about to find out, at least according to ...

BENNINGTON — In the corner of the operating room is a headset. In the middle is what looks like a giant robotic claw. From his position looking through the binocular headset, Seth Bernard, a general ...