Two Decades of Robotics in Medicine

Medical robotics has undergone a drastic change in the last couple of decades that robots have been used in treating patients. While even today the true potential of robotics has yet to be utilised in the medical industry there is no denying the fact that a number of less invasive treatments have been created using the field.

The new robotic implements in use have made it possible to get much better pre-operative and or real-time imaging for the surgeons making their job so much easier than before. The accuracy of reaching difficult spots during surgery has also been improved with the use of robotic arms. Surgery is not the only medical field that has received aid from robotics.

A lot is being done with robotics in rehabilitation medicine as well. The patients of strokes who need to relearn how to use their limbs can work rather well with medical robotic arms that allow them to progress with their rehabilitation on their own pace. A number of hospitals around the world have begun using such robots to help with patient care after recovery.

Needless to say any new science projects that deal with medical robotics are likely to be rather popular considering the amount of help they already render doctors and patients alike.