BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- They cling to rocks for dear life and it turns out the lowly salt-water mussel accomplishes the feat by creating a kind of natural super glue. Now University of California ...

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activ Surgical™, a digital surgery pioneer, today announced the completion of its first in-human surgery clinical trial utilizing the company’s technology-as-a-service ...

Robots could soon perform surgeries all on their own. According to a new report, researchers with John Hopkins University created a surgery robot capable of performing without a human guiding it. The ...

A robot designed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has performed incredibly intricate surgery on a pig—without human assistance. And it may just be the future of laparoscopic surgery. The ...

Doctors have transplanted the heart from a genetically modified pig into the chest of a man from Maryland in a last-ditch effort to save his life. The first-of-its-kind surgery is being hailed as a ...

A newly developed robot is capable of performing soft-tissue surgery, and indeed performed better on tests than a human surgeon. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

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ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9 (UPI) --Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone" with successful gallbladder removal ...