• Question: What is the future of robotics in medicine?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Difficult one.

      Robots are already used in medicine for very precision surgery and
      to investigate the intestine track.

      I am sure that over the years more and more applications will be found for them

    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I think there are two important jobs for robots in medicine. They can get to places easier than people may and they may be more precise. Some things that robots have been used a lot more recently is new keyhole research techniques, which means that major surgery can now be done in a much simpler procedure. Moreover, robots can be used for cancer and radiation therapies like never before and they can help when surgery is not possible.

    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      There are already quite a few being used in surgery. You can see in this video the ‘da Vinci Surgery Robot’ playing the game operation. -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP25mga2x8M

      Some researchers are also developing robots to help recovering patients in their home -> http://www.fastcompany.com/1587924/meet-cody-your-future-non-terrifying-health-care-helper-robot

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