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 ...

University of Iowa Health Care added three new surgical robots, expanding robotic surgery capacity by an estimated one ...

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

DES MOINES, Iowa — Dr. Mark Smolik, a Surgeon with the MercyOne Des Moines Bariatric Surgery Department, has hit a major career milestone — his 1,000th surgery using a robot. Dr. Smolik ...

BALTIMORE — Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients’ bedside? Not exactly, but some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on ...