Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

In the history of medicine, every leap forward has been marked by a shrinking footprint. Open surgery gave way to laparoscopy. Laparoscopy evolved into robotic-assisted systems. And now, surgery is ...

The U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has launched a new funding program aimed at the development of autonomous robotics—including a special focus on systems designed to ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is taking aim at the shortage of medical services with a program designed to foster development of micro-robots, or microbots, which will ...