Robotics for Medical and Welfare Technology. Robotics for Computer Aided Surgery.

Medical Robotics and Computer Aided Therapy

In the last three decades, ICT technology has strongly entered the Healthcare field bringing in new techniques to support therapy and rehabilitation. In this frame, medical robotics is an expansion of the service and professional robotics and other technologies, as surgical navigation have been introduced especially in minimally invasive surgery. Localization systems also allow delivering treat...

Computer-Integrated Surgery and Medical Robotics

63 . Medical Robotics and Computer - Integrated Surgery

The growth of medical robotics since the mid1980s has been striking. From a few initial efforts in stereotactic brain surgery, orthopaedics, endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and other areas, the field has expanded to include commercially marketed, clinically deployed systems, and a robust and exponentially expanding research community. This chapter will discuss some major themes and illustrate...

Medical robotics in computer-integrated surgery

This paper provides a broad overview of medical robot systems used in surgery. After introducing basic concepts of computer-integrated surgery, surgical CAD/CAM, and surgical assistants, it discusses some of the major design issues particular to medical robots. It then illustrates these issues and the broader themes introduced earlier with examples of current surgical CAD/CAM and surgical assis...

A Software Package for Computer-Aided Robotics Education

The kinematics of robot manipulators is a corner stone in the study of robotics in general. The computational complexity of the kinematics quite often prevents robotics instructors from using robots of general structure in their illustrative examples and assignments. The software discussed in this article, developed from recent research to support an undergraduate course in robotics, offers com...