Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is a minimally invasive robotic surgical technique for treating tumors and other head and neck conditions. Surgeons carry out this procedure transorally, meaning ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Hernias are a common medical condition, affecting over five million people in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. When someone has a hernia, it means an organ or ...

Doctors use transoral robotic surgery to treat head and neck cancer. They may also use it for obstructive sleep apnea. It can often lead to better surgical outcomes than other surgery types. Transoral ...

It takes years of intense study and a steady hand for humans to perform surgery, but robots might have an easier time picking it up with today's AI technology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...

Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems that learn, simulate, and predict performance and emerging as one of medicine’s most intriguing and controversial frontiers. Once an abstract ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are bringing the possibility of autonomous robotic surgery closer every day, according to a panel of Johns Hopkins University robotics experts. In a recent virtual ...

Cancer surgery often requires patients to travel to the specialist. This time, the specialist traveled to the patient. Doctors at The London Clinic remotely guided a robotic system to remove a man's ...