Globally, there's a good deal of interest in the studies of the diverse nature of human-nonhuman animal (animal) relationships. Anthrozoologists, conservation psychologists, people working in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two teleoperated robots work as a team to perform a laparoscopic gallbladder removal during a pre-clinical trial. (CREDIT: UCSD) ...

Surgeons at UC San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from live pigs, the first time such machines have operated on living subjects. The robots ran on cheap, ...

KAIST researchers developed a four-legged robot that can independently choose whether to walk, run, or jump as terrain ...

The airlines cite a concern over the size of batteries used in human- and animal-like robots, as batteries catching fire on ...

Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, ...

Video: Runbot exploits processes thought to explain the way animals control locomotion (Image: Florentin Wörgötter/PLOS) A newly improved two-legged robot can adapt to unfamiliar terrain in an ...

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has temporarily banned the transport of robots on its flights.

・UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots to complete two gallbladder-removal surgeries in pigs, including one procedure involving a human assistant and another briefly using two ...

Two humanoid robots stood beside an operating table and completed tasks once reserved for specialized surgical machines. Their successful gallbladder procedures in pigs mark a first, but they also ...