Robots and Healthcare Saving Lives Together

Many believe healthcare robotics is reaching a tipping point. Robots are becoming cheaper and more capable. The sensors and software that heighten their capability continue to drop in price.

And as a new age dawns for robots designed to work collaboratively with humans, medical applications will only gain momentum. Reports are projecting tremendous growth for healthcare robotics in the next five years.

“We are at the infancy of the automation spectrum for medical robotics,” says Corey Ryan, Manager of Medical Robotics for KUKA Robotics Corporation in Shelby Township, Michigan.

“I say that because the da Vinci has most of the market for surgical robotics, but it is a telemanipulator.

The surgeon operates a joystick to perform the procedure. The system doesn’t do the work itself. It’s simply a remote tool the doctor can use.”