Medical crash carts—stocked with medications, syringes, gauze, and IV fluids—are essential tools in emergency rooms, where seconds matter, space is tight, and confusion can cost lives. However, ...

Afshin Mehin has become the go-to designer for companies working on devices that aim to tap into or modulate the brain. The creative agency he founded, San Francisco–based Card79, has worked with Elon ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of advanced medical devices, including tiny ...

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 ...

Meet CODI. The robot has a long flexible arm and eyes on one side to mimick a sonographer while they're operating it. CODI could be in rural clinics in Wisconsin next year to help perform patients' ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt ...

Robotics technology is quickly disrupting a variety of sectors, including the medical space, and surgical robot applications are a major component of the overall medical robots market. In fact, a ...

In a recent perspective review published in the journal Nature Reviews Materials, researchers collate and discuss ongoing progress in edible materials and how these materials can be used to develop ...

The robot doctor will see you now? Not for the foreseeable future, anyway. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Medical robots today are pretty dumb, typically acting as ...