In a Canadian first, a team at University Hospital in London, Ont., has been performing deep brain stimulation surgery, a treatment for seizures caused by epilepsy.

Children's Hospital pediatric neurologist Andrea Andrade, right, with 14-year-old Ethan, the first pediatric epilepsy patient in Ontario to undergo a robot-assisted brain surgery to place ...

Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the "uncanny valley". A team at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa have shown how a robot's gaze can trick us into thinking we ...

Two University of Toronto researchers are at the centre of the world’s first robot-assisted brain surgery, testing a system that could allow them to operate remotely on stroke and aneurysm patients in ...

The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is celebrating a country first.. Earlier this year, the first robot-assisted deep brain stimulation surgery in Canada was completed at University Hospital ...

Monkey's brain controls robot arm U.S. researchers have successfully taught monkeys to feed themselves with a human-like robotic arm using only signals from their brains.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the ...