Medical and Healthcare Robotics: New Paradigms and Recent Advances

Medical and Healthcare Robotics: New Paradigms and Recent Advances highlights the importance and limitations of robotics for medical and healthcare applications. It provides an overview and an exclusive insight into current trends and recent advances. Robotics for medical applications is one of the fastest growing sectors in biomedical engineering. The key challenge remains building reliable systems with greater levels of autonomy and safety. Nowadays, medical robotics are crucial technologies for assisting doctors in surgery, exploration, diagnosis, and therapy. They are considered as essential tools for student medical training. Additionally, healthcare robotics profoundly impacts the everyday lives of a large part of the human population including the disabled and the elderly who use artificial organs, as well as assistive and rehabilitation robots for improving the quality of their lives and increasing their independence. Medical and Healthcare Robotics: New Paradigms and Recent Advances is structured in two parts. Part I is devoted to medical robotics including all robotic devices for surgery, exploration, diagnosis, therapy, and training. Part II is dedicated to healthcare robotics including rehabilitation devices, artificial organs, assistive technologies, and companion robots. Each part is structured in 7 chapters, with each chapter containing several sections including an introduction, a state of art, and future directions in the field. Covers main areas of medical and healthcare robotics Presents the most recent innovations and trends in medical and Healthcare Robotics Contains book chapters written by eminent researchers in the field INDICE: Part I: Medical Robotics: Robotics to assist doctors 1. Robot-assisted surgery: A state of art 2. Artificial Intelligence in Robot-Assisted Surgery: Applications on Surgical Skills Assessment and Transfer 3. Surgical Robots: Haptic feedback problems and technological solutions 4. Recent advances in design and actuation of continuum robots for medical applications 5. Robotics in exploration, diagnosis, and therapy: Applications and recent innovations 6. Body-part simulators for medical training: from full-body manikin to virtual reality environment 7. Service robots in healthcare: Challenges and opportunities Part II: Healthcare Robotics: Robotics to assist patients with health difficulties 8. Rehabilitation robotics: A state of Art 9. Gait Devices for Stroke Rehabilitation: State-of-the art, Challenges, and Open Issues 10. Robotic devices for upper limb rehabilitation: Mechanical design, mathematical modeling, interactive interface, and training 11. Artificial Organs: Challenges and applications 12. Assistive robotic technologies: An overview of recent advances in medical applications 13. Disinfection robots in medical applications 14. Companion robots in healthcare applications: Prospects and trends

• ISBN: 978-0-443-18460-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés