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

The STAR surgical experiments did take considerably longer than human ones, but Kim said they were not focused on speed for this proof of concept. “We can run the robot really, really fast.

Classic industrial robots are often still programmed using textual languages. This requires experts and takes a long time, which is why the resulting high costs are only profitable for large ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers ...

Realtime Robotics RapidPlan software autonomously creates and choreographs all robot movement, removing the need for brand-specific robot programming.

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...