Once inside, a magnetic field guides and unfolds it at the target site, where it releases medicine in a controlled and steady ...

Otto, a self-steering robot on wheels, rolls through Hancock Regional Hospital during a demonstration Tuesday. The hospital ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire)- Robots have changed the medical field, and now, those robots are becoming smaller than ever before. They’re called microbots, also known as nanorobots. They’re ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile ...

A robot “dog” may soon make its way from a Purdue entomology lab to fetch real-time data on tick populations in the wild.

'Soft robots,' medical devices and implants, and next-generation drug delivery methods could soon be guided with magnetism -- thanks to a metal-free magnetic gel developed by researchers. Carbon-based ...

The treatment of gastrointestinal and urinary system diseases has long been plagued by limitations of traditional drug delivery methods, such as low drug concentration at target sites, lack of ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

Accuracy and reliability are crucial to any manufacturer, but precision medical device manufacturing faces higher demands than most. Luckily, available technologies make this precision more achievable ...