Robotic knee surgery offers longer-lasting results with less pain and quicker recovery, but isn't suitable for all patients, ...

PHOENIX — A Scottsdale hospital recently acquired two orthopedic robots for joint replacement surgery.

Hernias are a common medical condition, affecting over five million people in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. When someone has a hernia, it means an organ or ...

Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the youngest ...

Leslie Stoll was an active athlete who had never smoked. She was shocked when a chance scan spotted something unusual.

Inventors and researchers have been developing robots for almost 70 years. To date, all the machines they have built – whether for factories or elsewhere – have had one thing in common: they are ...