After a decade of planning, one lab has created a device that might make a common procedure safer and simpler. Late one night in 1982, a Yale University medical student named Martin Yarmush witnessed ...

A Japanese robot has begun probing the radioactive water at Fukushima's nuclear reactor. The marine robot, nicknamed the 'little sunfish', is on a mission to study structural damage and find fuel ...

Robot probes sent in to study Japan's Fukushima site keep failing during their recon missions. The radiation levels at the site are so high that previous clean-up bots have struggled to withstand ...

A new swimming robot is set to investigate damage at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Remote-controlled robots are key to the decades-long ...