Tech Humanoid robot performs medical procedures via remote control Could these advanced robots be what struggling healthcare systems need?

Northwestern engineers created the world’s smallest remote-controlled micro robot. Made of an elastic shape-memory alloy, the crab-shaped robot includes no hardware or electrical components. The ...

Tiny remote-controlled blob robots may revolutionize infection treatment by eradicating stubborn bacterial biofilms on medical implants with precision and ease.

This is a nuclear first for safety the remote control of the quadruped robot, Spot, Boston Dynamics manufactured at the Cumbrian Sellafield nuclear plant.

Scientists for the first time have managed to remotely direct the movements of rats by using implanted electrodes to control their behavior -- in effect transforming living animals into robots.

Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., said on May 25 they have developed "the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot" in the form of a tiny crab.

Both allow it to perform seven varied medical procedures using a remote control operated by a human using foot pedals, HTC Vive trackers, and motion-capture cameras.