9 Exciting Facts About Medical Robots

 

Repost from the medical futurist:

"Medical robots do not only exist in sci-fi movies, they are coming to healthcare. If medical professionals want to utilize them successfully and do not want to fear the loss of their jobs, they should learn more about them. Here are the 9 most exciting medical robot facts.

Medical robots do not only exist in sci-fi movies and the distant future, they are coming to healthcare and all stakeholders must prepare for them. Robots can support, assist and extend the service health workers are offering. In jobs with repetitive and monotonous functions they might even obtain the capacity to completely replace humans.

Thus, medical professionals and caretakers would do well to learn more about medical robots: what they are capable of, how to work with them and in what way they might complement the tasks they perform daily. Otherwise human medical workers might get replaced or grow frustrated if they experience that robots are able to do their jobs and they cannot change their previous tasks into something irreplaceable.

1) 70% Drop in Hospital Acquired Infections due to Xenex Robot
2) Two Belgian Hospitals “Hired” Pepper Robots as Receptionists
3) By 2020, surgical robotics sales are expected to almost double to $6.4 billion
4) 750,000 Remote Clinical Encounters Through Intouch Health
5) TUG Robot Able To Carry Around More Than 400 Kilograms of Medication
6) Bear-Shaped Robot Can Lift Patients Out of Bed 40 Times a Day
7) Less Than a Millimeter Sized Microbot Delivers Drugs Through Bloodstream
8) Veebot Draws Blood In Less Than a Minute
9) Cuddly Animal-Shaped PARO Robot Reduces Stress for Patients"

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