A seven-year-old in the UK has become the first child in the country to get kidney surgery with a pioneering robot-assisted device. Reece had an obstruction that inhibited the flow of urine from his ...

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Cleveland Clinic has reportedly witnessed and performed the United States' first-ever robot-assisted surgery during a dual kidney transplant. This innovative method involved a minimally invasive ...

On Jan. 15, 2026, Michael Hanaway, M.D., surgical director of the Kidney Transplant Program at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Muhammad Rabbani, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of ...

With the help of technology and a donation from her ex-husband, Dana Bottoms will make history as the first woman in California to undergo surgery assisted with robotics and receive a new kidney. With ...

None — Transplant surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital announced this morning they have performed the first live-donor kidney transplant in western Pennsylvania in which a robot assisted a surgeon.

The global surgical robot market was valued at about $4.3 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach approximately $7.4 billion by 2030, according to market research firm Grand View Research. The North ...

Patients who undergo single-port robotic prostate or kidney surgery tend to have less blood loss and postoperative pain and shorter hospital stays compared with patients undergoing multi-port robotic ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of robot-assisted kidney transplant is limited in quantity and quality. For patients with obesity who would not otherwise be able to have a kidney ...