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While providing the best care for their communities is a priority for health care systems, there are many tasks which can take doctors and nurses away from patients. Robots have been used at hospitals ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan's 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. "Luca, ...

Yong Suk Lee, associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Facing high employee turnover and an aging ...

A new frontier in medicine has come to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where robots are making the rounds. The ...

The robot doctor will see you now? Not for the foreseeable future, anyway. Medical robots today are pretty dumb, typically acting as extensions of a surgeon's hands rather than taking over for them.

MMI built a robot to help surgeons perform microsurgical procedures with more control than is possible with the human hand ...

PTR Robots is a Danish service robot company introducing a robot that can both mobilize and transfer patients—while simultaneously boosting the working environment. The invention has been developed in ...

Andy Sturrock is the first of hundreds of patients to receive robot-assisted surgery at the Northern General Hospital The first patient to undergo pioneering robotic-assisted surgery has said he is ...