Medical robots today are pretty dumb, typically acting as extensions of a surgeon's hands rather than taking over for them.

A group of doctors have begun training which will allow them to use robotic equipment to carry out surgery. They have been learning how to use the multi-million pound Da Vinci robotic surgery machine ...

This robot doctor was designed to go and treat patients where human doctors can’t. “The medic could drive a robotic system to a location and perform a series of different kinds of triage tasks ...

The robot can circle the bed and adjust the position of its two cameras, giving “the perception from the patient’s standpoint that the doctor is there,” Gandsas said. “They love it.

A doctor in Florida has used a robot to remotely perform surgery on a cancer patient thousands of miles away in Africa. Vipul Patel, the medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Orlando ...