The role of robots is gaining more and more field every day in
the healthcare sector. They are used in modern medicine to
train nurses, doctors and dentists, they also work to comfort and protect
elderly patients in early stages of dementia, robots also help people after
diverse types of traumas, etc. The use of these new inventions can
help doctors and other professionals to smaller incisions for shorter
surgeries, reducing hospital stays and improving patients' prognoses and saving
costs. Everything we mentioned and even more is facing the future
of medicine, and today, MIGLOBAL will present you 4 of
these robots that are changing the methods of healthcare.
- Sofie
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| Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Sofie |
The Surgeon's Operating Force-feedback Interface
Eindhoven (Sofie) consists
of a master robotics setup, joysticks and a surgeon's control panel. Sofie is
not on the floor, but mounted on the operating table. Van den Bedem
built the robot with the help of the Eindhoven University's technical
department, which patented the process. This robot incorporates force feedback,
which can allow specialists to feel the pressure they apply when making a
suture or pushing aside a bit of tissue.
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| Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: RIBA |
The Robot for Interactive
Body Assistance (RIBA) is
designed to lift people who are too weak or ill to sit, walk, or stand by
themselves. RIBA has 454 sensors in its arms; it
also has a motor for lifting people and a soft urethane foam skin for comfort. RIBA can
respond to commands and is trained to recognize faces and voices.
- Lokomat
Some people that lose their
ability to walk and turn after
suffering a stroke, spinal cord damage, traumatic brain injury or other harm
to the central nervous system. For these people, Lokomat was
created. Robot-based technologies such as Lokomat combine medical and
engineering approaches in order to help patients regain mobility faster,
with less pain.
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| Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: NeuroArm |
The neuroArm allows a surgeon to perform biopsies and
other interventions on patient’s brains while processing MRI scans of
the patient; this helps the surgeon to be oriented and guided through the
operation.
By [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza].
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