Mountain View, CA-based Levita Magnetics announced in June that it was granted 510(k) clearance for its Magnetic Surgical System (MSS) and MARS system in bariatric and hiatal hernia repair procedures.

For the first time ever, humanoid robots operated by surgeons have successfully performed laparoscopic gallbladder removal in ...

According to Dr. Davinder Singh, the key difference between laparoscopic and robotic surgery lies in the level of precision.

Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a rare form of cancer with no signs or symptoms in the early stages. In the U.S., approximately 2,000 people die annually from this condition, with only 20% diagnosed at an ...

As robotic cholecystectomy, also known as gallbladder removal, becomes increasingly common, researchers have identified higher rates of bile duct injury in robotic cholecystectomy compared to the ...

Robotic cholecystectomy tied to reduced adverse outcomes over laparoscopic approach ...

While robotic laparoscopic surgical systems do make certain procedures safer and less invasive, those systems are still operated by human surgeons. Now, however, a surgical robot has performed a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. It’s not exactly R2-D2 performing your surgery. But robotic ...

A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human – a significant step in robotics toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team ...

UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots to complete two gallbladder-removal surgeries in pigs, including one procedure involving a human assistant and another briefly using two ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins this week issued a report noting that their Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) system has completed laparoscopic surgery on a pig tissue without human guidance. The ...