The global healthcare system is expected to face a shortage of 4.5 million nurses by 2030, with burnout identified as a leading cause for this deficit. In response, Taiwan's hospitals are taking ...

Japan has a rapidly aging population, along with the longest life expectancy in the world. These two factors combine to create one of the biggest problems the country's healthcare system faces. In the ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge created a robot that was able to assist nurses working in a ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — As Texas grapples with a dire nursing shortage, some hospitals are augmenting their workforce with artificially intelligent robots. In the West Texas city of San Angelo (260 miles ...

Pontiac — Her name is Moxi, and she is here to help if a patient needs medicine, a boxed lunch or a telemetry pack at Trinity Health's Oakland Campus hospital in Pontiac. Moxi, a retrieval and ...

An MIT-altered robot backed with AI provided scheduling recommendations to labor ward nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. See how it turned out. Chris Newmarker MIT researchers were ...

HUTCHINSON, Minn. — Hutchinson Health Hospital has a unique employee helping out staff. Spencer, the lab and supplies delivering robot, has been on the team for six years and has never taken a day off ...

St. Anthony’s Hospital has added two robots to its staff. The robots, Beaker and Hygeia, pick up and deliver labs and prescriptions. Hospital staff said the robots free up nurses to spend more time ...

From robot nurses to a change in how patients are cared for, the gastroenterology industry could look vastly different in 10 years. Sheldon Taub, MD, a gastroenterologist at Jupiter (Fla.) Medical ...

While deadly “Terminator”-style robots are making a comeback in one new television series, a more benign variety of the machines are delivering drugs and tracking medical equipment throughout a North ...