Perspective of polish medical robots. Zbigniew Nawrat - Cardiac Surgery Development Foundation

All futurological studies show that we enter a period of radical technology acceleration based on informatics and electronics, molecular biology and genetics and nanotechnology. There is appearing new generation of medical equipment. Medical telemanipulators market used in surgery is growing very rapidly.

Medical robotics developing creates tools used to a direct contact via telemedicine technology with the patient or medical personnel. The introduction of robots equipped with remote control systems and transmission of information over long distances, will have a certain impact on the economy and will allow the execution of procedures in difficult situations such as war, epidemic, space travel or others where there is lack of professional staff. In a view of aging society in the future nursing robots will be the most developed direction of robotic. In 1986, the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) has found as many as 400 possible uses of robots in medicine and health care.
The increase in the computational capabilities of computers will have an impact on all areas of life, but primarily on the development of bionics and biocybernetics. We are on the first front line of researches in several fields of science and practice. Medical technology is today an essential element of the patient's treatment progress. Since engineers have become partners of doctors, it is clear that the automated equipment, expert software, more independent robots will provide quality assistance and dissemination of high medical standards.

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