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Robotics for Medical Purposes

The use of robot’s to aid mankind has endless possibilities. Robotics can be used in many areas including medical purposes. One area where robot’s can help is medical procedures that require high precision. Operations are done by expert’s that are skilled at what they do but people can only be so accurate. Also these skilled people might not always be available. If a robot can be built that can make operations on people it will greatly aid our society. Robot’s will not only make operations with more accuracy and precision than humans, but also they can easily be mass produced making them much more readily available for people in need than skilled medical professionals.

Robot’s can also be made to physically enhance human abilities. Exoskeletons can be robotics that are in a suit/harness type thing that can be worn and will enhance muscle movement’s of the human body. In the medical view people who have multiple sclerosis might be able to use this to enhance their muscle movement’s since their condition limit’s their muscle movement. If a muscle is weak the robotics could sense the slightest force in a body part and then add power to it to make the person have a strong movement.

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The harness could be made to cover only some limbs or the whole body potentially letting a person who is confined to a wheelchair stand up and walk on their own leg’s again.

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3 responses to “Robotics for Medical Purposes”

  1. daliakamar Avatar
    daliakamar

    In my opinion, one of the most relevant and necessary robots that are need are these types of robots.I am grateful that they are being developed and produced because some people are in dire need of this type of medical assistance. Exoskeletons should be available to those who suffer from sclerosis since it does help them. However, i understand that it probably costs a lot of money to make such robots and the likelihood of them becoming widely available is small, unfortunately.

  2. Farida El Sayed Avatar
    Farida El Sayed

    This blog is very engaging as it provides many useful ways a robot could be used to assist in the medical field. However can you give me specific robots that are able to perform any of the actions you stated, and if so were they useful and successful?

  3. sarahamer Avatar
    sarahamer

    In my opinion, i find this idea to be extremely revolutionary and truly interesting as it shows mankind’s progression and advances in technology as this development is both innovative as well as extremely beneficial and helpful to humanity. There are so many people that need medical assistance and this development will truly help them. However, as mentioned in the comments above, if you can please explain or give specific robots or situations in which the robots were successful in performing the actions they are characterized as being able to do.

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