Japan has a rapidly aging population, along with the longest life expectancy in the world. These two factors combine to create one of the biggest problems the country's healthcare system faces. In the ...

Glowing digital eyes momentarily transforming into hearts, the robot gently closed a pincer "hand" around the phone, lifted it above eye level and snapped a selfie. This is Aeo, the newest version of ...

To date the use of robots in nursing has been limited to getting them to fetch and carry supplies, take samples to the lab, remotely measure temperatures, or maybe provide social stimulation. Now in ...

Elon Musk outlined a vision for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots to perform sophisticated medical procedures with superhuman ...

Hospitals and senior living centers are leading the adoption of service robots that handle basic support tasks. Experts ...

A hospital in Xiamen, Fujian province, facilitated the world's first successful cross-border remote robot-assisted heart ...

Researchers examine whether advancements in robotics and AI can replicate nurses' human qualities. The concept of AI-powered robots in nursing isn’t far-fetched anymore—Baptist Health in Jacksonville, ...

The global healthcare system is expected to face a shortage of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, with burnout identified as a leading cause for this deficit. In response, Taiwan's hospitals are taking ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — As Texas grapples with a dire nursing shortage, some hospitals are augmenting their workforce with artificially intelligent robots. In the West Texas city of San Angelo (260 miles ...

While deadly “Terminator”-style robots are making a comeback in one new television series, a more benign variety of the machines are delivering drugs and tracking medical equipment throughout a North ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge created a robot that was able to assist nurses working in a ...