Healthcare News | Robotics and Automation https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/healthcare Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:17:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Favicon-1-e1705495184773-32x32.png Healthcare News | Robotics and Automation https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/healthcare 32 32 Robotics & Automation in review 2025: the stories, signals and shifts that shaped the year https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/robotics-automation-in-review-2025-the-stories-signals-and-shifts-that-shaped-the-year.html Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:16:59 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28826 If 2024 was the year robotics and automation proved it could scale, 2025 was the year the conversation moved on to how it scales: skills, integration, capital, regulation and measurable [...]

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]]> Google DeepMind to open automated AI lab in UK under new government partnership https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/ai/google-deepmind-to-open-automated-ai-lab-in-uk-under-new-government-partnership.html Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:09:51 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28745 Google DeepMind has agreed a new three-year strategic partnership with the UK government that will see it open its first fully automated research laboratory in the country and expand collaboration [...]

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]]> UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill passes to bolster national organisations protection https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/ai/uk-cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-passes-to-bolster-national-organisations-protection.html Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:22:34 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28589 UK Parliament has introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill which seeks to strengthen national security by boosting cyber protections for the services including the NHS. Hospitals, energy and water [...]

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]]> Innovate UK funds Somerset drone disaster scheme https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/aviation/innovate-uk-funds-somerset-drone-disaster-scheme.html Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:11:10 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28328 Innovate UK has awarded Somerset Council funding for a drone project for disaster response and environmental protection in the county. The award for the £191,370 project comes from the Future [...]

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]]> Humanoid Robotics Data Training Center opens in Beijing https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/rd/humanoid-robotics-data-training-center-opens-in-beijing.html Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:47:04 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28155 Robotics company RealMan Robotics has launched a large-scale Humanoid Robotics Data Training Center in Beijing, China in an effort to accelerate the development of humanoid robots for both domestic and [...]

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]]> Robotic hippotherapy brings horse-free rehabilitation to patients https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/soft-robotics/robotic-hippotherapy-brings-horse-free-rehabilitation-to-patients.html Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:33:53 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28126 Austrian company intelligent motion has developed a new robotic device that replicates the movements of a horse, offering a high-tech alternative to traditional hippotherapy for patients undergoing neurological and musculoskeletal [...]

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]]> HistoSonics eyes global growth with $2.25bn Investment https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/histosonics-eyes-global-growth-with-2-25bn-investment.html Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:48:08 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=28077 HistoSonics, a medical technology company has announced a majority stake acquisition led by its executive management and a syndicate of high-profile global investors. The transaction, which values the company at [...]

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]]> Zimmer Biomet to acquire Monogram Technologies in US$177m deal https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/international/zimmer-biomet-to-acquire-monogram-technologies-in-us177m-deal.html Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:46:04 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=27960 Medical technology giant Zimmer Biomet Holdings has announced a definitive agreement to acquire orthopaedic robotics firm Monogram Technologies in a deal valued at approximately US$177m. The acquisition is set to [...]

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]]> Royal Marsden performs ‘world-first’ robotic microsurgery https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/healthcare/royal-marsden-performs-world-first-robotic-microsurgery.html Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:01:25 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=27930 The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has become the first medical centre in the world to clinically use two groundbreaking technologies in robotic-assisted microsurgery, developed by Medical Microinstruments, (MMI). The [...]

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]]> Cobionix secures US$3m to advance autonomous medical robots https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/cobionix-secures-us3m-to-advance-autonomous-medical-robots.html Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:50:08 +0000 https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/?p=27905 Canadian medical robotics firm Cobionix has raised US$3m in a funding round led by TitletownTech, a US-based venture capital fund backed by Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers. The round [...]

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