By 10 remarkable healthcare robots initiating a difference in the healthcare advancement space
The concept of robotics in healthcare is not new. But now, the applications are more apparent and necessary in the contemporary healthcare advancement scenario. Recent healthtech transformations are far more advanced than healthcare robots or medical robots, but the fact that these robots are now powered by artificial intelligence and not just automation is making the change enormously significant and glaringly different. Multiple healthtech companies have come up with incredible healthcare robots that can perform specific healthcare practices and accompany healthcare providers.
Endoscopic Bot
The practice of endoscopy is both painful for doctors as well as patients. In a recent development, the healthtech industry has witnessed slender and flexible robots which do not involve the manual movement of the doctor’s hand to operate the endoscopic pipe. Instead, doctors can control the intervention through a screen and driving it like an RC car, this limits the possibility of manual tremor.
Exoskeletons
Healthcare robots like exoskeletons help in the rehabilitation of physically impaired patients. A paralyzed person can be aided by this application of robotics in healthcare to walking again. By facilitating the movement of bones and joints, the medical robots also heal the damage caused by a particular incident to the body. However, the conduct is commanded by humans and not autonomously driven by itself.
daVinci
daVinci is a healthcare robot surgeon controls during an incision. The robot ensures to perform the operation in a minor way without causing many wounds and at the same time assuring precision. For the last eighteen years, daVinci has been acing the healthtech transformation in the industry inspiring countless healthtech companies.
Therapeutic Micro Robots
Used for delivering medicines and drugs to a specific part of the body through the tracts and pathways having a vent in the outer surface. Sometimes, it is also deployed to offer radiation, particularly to the tumour protecting other areas of the body. Furthermore, present-day research has also introduced tiny tails that can travel with the help of magnetic fields that can spin themselves.
Disinfectant Robots
Hospital quarters tend to be unhygienic by nature because of their antibiotic usage that creates antibiotic resistance. Thus, in order to keep the hospital premises clean and secured, daily decontamination is required. For this disinfectant, robots can efficiently replace human hands. Involving the latter is not only less productive but also harmful as compared to disinfectant. The disinfectant robots cast UV rays to a hospital room after a patient leaves in order to kill all the germs or microorganisms.
Companion Robot
These robots are used to aid patients who suffer from chronic loneliness and lack of a social network. The robots also provide them with emotional support as well as the support of a caretaker. The mentally disabled individuals can be benefitted from these robots at a large scale and serve them well to recover from changing emotional needs and requirements, besides making their lives better and saving them from entering a gloomy life of their own.
Robotic Nurses
The role of the nurses is highly crucial for a patient to recover and survive in a hospital environment. However, these nurses are often set to work more than their ability and persistence, sometimes resulting in their collapse as evident from the case of the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, these robotic nurses can help out with paperwork, measuring vital signs, monitoring patients’ medical journey, and all that can relieve a nurse from the repetitive work and let them focus primarily on what they are best at.
Pharmabotics
Visualize a big and smart vending machine for the purpose of manufacturing, developing, and supplying drugs. The University of California has studied and introduced this healthcare robot which is yet to assume approval worldwide, however, it has got permission for certain pharmaceutical usage and is operating well in hand with the drug discovery and supply chain process.
Telepresence Surrogate
Facilitating remote healthcare to the far-flung communities who were so long ignored by the system. Doctors and clinicians can treat and diagnose patients with the use of this healthcare and overcome the crisis of healthcare facilities being extended to the people. The remote-controlled robots are enabling more flexibility in the system than it ever was.
AI Diagnostics
Considered to be the most an AI and machine learning application can do for medicines. The AI diagnostics are assisted by millions of healthcare data sets available in the worldwide network of repositories to identify a disease or a risk of a disease in an individual by examining their symptoms and matching them simultaneously with the big data.
