Surgical Robots

How does a spark of an idea become a life-saving medical device? Engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Robert Webster III traces that spark back to his childhood. Read More

Ground breaking technology that enables robots to perform high-risk surgeries more safely shows that robotic surgical tools play a major role in the future of medicine. Robert Webster, PhD., explains the groundbreaking Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH robot) he and his MED Lab team are developing. Read More

A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. Vanderbilt University bioengineer Nabil Simaansays a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon loses his… Read More