Four types of robots already successfully used in healthcare

ICT&health November 17, 2022
Artur Olesch

Tesla Bot, Elon Musk’s new humanoid presented for the first time at the beginning of October, did not revolutionize robotics. Nevertheless, specialized robots are already successfully used in health care: in elderly homes, during surgeries and to bring some joy to children in hospitals.

The most popular is the da Vinci robotic surgical system. 1,199 devices have already been implemented in Europe and 4,139 in the USA. Designed in the 90s, in 2000 it was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since then, it has been applied in 10 million medical procedures, primarily in complicated laparoscopic surgeries, especially in the area of the urinary tract that is hard to access. Over 5,500 da Vinci systems have been...

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