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Mathias Unberath speaks on stage behind a podium in front of a screen displaying an illustration of a sick child holding a teddy bear.

Symposium spotlights AI’s potential to revolutionize health care

Robot-assisted surgery, an app for diagnosing strep throat, and a new tool to detect glaucoma are all on the health care horizon thanks to artificial intelligence innovators at the Johns Hopkins University.

A person in a white doctor's coat gestures to a tablet in their hand. Behind them is an operating room with a C-arm X-ray imaging machine.

Speak and your X-ray will be imaged

Johns Hopkins researchers present the voice-controlled X-ray imaging system that earned a Best Paper Award at IPCAI 2025.

The Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy performing a gallbladder surgery.

Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help

A system trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon.

Illustration of a child playing a racing game on a computer using a wheel with "HaptiKart" and a cartoon character on it.

Steering autism research with sensory science

Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger researchers use a new racing game to shed light on how children with autism learn.

A diagram showing a surgeon, three actions (clip the cystic artery, resect gallbladder from liver bed, and dissect Calot's triangle) with RAS-RT, robot action, and confidence blocks after, leading to a risk-avoidance system block that loops back to an autonomy switch and then back to the surgeon.

Beyond assistants: How AI could enable surgical robots to think and act autonomously

Multimodal training promises smarter, safer robotic surgery.

Two surgical robot arms hold and tie suture material in a simulated surgical setting.

Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor

A breakthrough training system utilizing imitation learning opens a “new frontier” in medical robotics.