Intuitive Surgical will face competition this year from Medtronic and smaller companies like CMR Surgical and Moon Surgical ...

It’s the Cambrian explosion of robotic-assisted surgery systems. With the expiry of da Vinci’s patents in 2019, companies around the world are racing to develop affordable and usable systems ...

Robotic assistance in surgery is not new. Since 1985, when the PUMA 560 first assisted in a brain biopsy, robots have been helping doctors perform various procedures, including gallbladder ...

This could avoid excessive drilling, explains Zhao. The endodontic robot’s precision is intended to reduce the risk of overfilling which can also cause damage. The development of the endodontic ...

Cancer patients in west Norfolk are benefiting from a new surgical robot. The £1m machine called Versius allows surgeons to perform long, complex procedures more comfortably. It has been bought ...

This means that several holes can be drilled close together. With its drilling head, the robot digs through different substrates, ranging from clayey soil to granite rock. The maximum drilling ...

In an advancement for minimally invasive care, a first-ever procedure using two separate surgery robots was successfully completed. A urologist at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical ...

Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, began using a robotic surgery system called da Vinci XI in June 2023 to assist with the treatment of ...