The high prices of many eldercare robots represent another significant barrier, as they are well beyond the reach of most ...

The Aeo robot is already helping out in elder care facilities, and now it can disinfect surfaces with UV light and deliver medicine. Bree Fowler writes about cybersecurity and digital privacy. Before ...

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 ...

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 ...

As partners in an engineering company that provides advanced automation, we get interesting reactions to the concept of bringing robots to healthcare. For some, it invokes sci-fi visions of ...

Many of the best use cases for robotics in healthcare are not science fiction, but expansions on efficiency, work capacity, and good common sense. As partners in an engineering company that provides ...

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 ...

The future of AI: Robotic nurses in healthcare You could see a robot or two during your next visit to the hospital or the doctor's office. One company has deployed what is thought to be the world's ...

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 ...

The operating room of Genesis Medical Center, East Campus, is beginning to resemble the sick bay on Star Trek. On a recent Thursday morning, doctors and nurses at the Davenport hospital gathered to ...