In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the need to open the chest. The pioneering procedure, performed at the ...

Patchogue-based NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk recently performed four procedures that officials described as “highly complex” robotic surgeries, marking the first time that the advanced surgical ...

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient – the first reported in the United States. Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon ...

With estimates that roughly 15% of all surgeries use robots, an open house Tuesday afternoon at Northwest Health Porter in Valparaiso was a timely opportunity for the public to try out the technology ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — One of the potential drawbacks of robotic surgery is that a surgeon has to rely on visual information to determine how much force to use with their instruments, but a new ...

HOUSTON — Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States. Using a robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and ...

NICE has conditionally approved 11 robotic surgery systems for NHS use, with evidence collection required before wider adoption can proceed.

Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone" with successful gallbladder removal procedures in lifelike settings ...

Recent analyses have shown that da Vinci robotic surgery achieves a 99% reliability rate, with technical issues rarely affecting patient outcomes.

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center surgeon successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States.