
How Robots Support Healthcare
Tasks such as taking blood, recording temperature, or improving patient hygiene are simple but essential.
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CIO Applications Europe | Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Tasks such as taking blood, recording temperature, or improving patient hygiene are simple but essential. If robots were able to help with these simple repetitive tasks, it would give nurses more time to focus on individualized patient care and devising treatment plans.
FREMONT, CA: The healthcare industry implements four types of robots to enhance the standard of care and help humans improve and do things quicker with fewer errors.
Here are four types of robots used in healthcare:
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Care Robots
The utilization of care robots are expected to increase substantially over the next decade to provide care and support to the elderly, and disabled patients is low. Another expected use case for these robots will be assisting nurses in reducing tasks that they perform on an hourly basis.
Hospital Robots
Hospital robots, such as Aethon’s TUG autonomous mobile robot can deliver laboratory specimens, medications, and other sensitive material in a hospital environment. It can also maneuver using a built-in map and an array of on-board sensors. Also, it uses Wi-Fi to communicate with elevators, automatic doors, and fire alarms. There are robots that have been designed to disinfect hospital devices and equipment.
Exoskeletons
The exoskeleton market is a fast-growing category in the robotics. It includes bio-feedback waistband lumbar support for airport and warehouse workers. The advancement in brain-machine connectivity will impact the progression of exoskeletons.
However, these devices are not cheap, and the price needs to come down as output scale and reduce the component costs of items, including sensors, electronics, and electrical engineering.
Surgical Robots
Robotic surgical systems from big manufacturers focus on individual therapeutic areas for minimally invasive robotic surgery. Every company tries to underline its own features to increase their product and dominate the market.
There is a growing rise for surgical procedures within the healthcare industry, and it can be credited to the growth in the adoption rates of adoption surgical systems globally.
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