Afshin Mehin has become the go-to designer for companies working on devices that aim to tap into or modulate the brain. The creative agency he founded, San Francisco–based Card79, has worked with Elon ...

Heeju Kim, an industrial designer, has focused her career on the intersection of technology and human experience. Her ...

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Medtronic, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Medical Microinstruments (MMI) and other device developers earned honors at the 2026 ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Researchers at one of China's top universities have designed a robot they say could help save lives on the frontline during the coronavirus outbreak. The machine consists of a ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt ...

Micro-robots operate on a scale from a few microns to several millimeters. Untethered micro devices utilize magnetic fields or acoustic waves for precise propulsion. Biodegradable gels and ...

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Medical robots are transforming modern medicine, bringing unprecedented precision to surgical procedures and advanced capabilities to diagnostics. Healthcare robotics enhances patient care through ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising treatments that work from the inside out. Instead of relying on scalpels and ...

Robotics technology is quickly disrupting a variety of sectors, including the medical space, and surgical robot applications are a major component of the overall medical robots market. In fact, a ...