Robotics in Medicine

Since always, the human being has wanted to create a robot which has almost all of his characteristics.

The creation of a human likeness in a machine, or an automaton, involves the reproduction of human movements and abilities with exactitude. Proof of this is the automaton created in London, around 1900, by Henri Maillardet, a Swiss manufacturer of clocks and other mechanisms, who "gave life" to a machine, a draftsman who was capable of reproducing drawings and writing in the form of verses.

Later, with the advancement of technology, artificial mechanical components have been created to be implanted in the human body, supplanting its own deficiencies.

Scientific researcher, Oded Kariti, indicates that the field of robotics, applied to medicine transforms the vision of the robot, which goes from being an inanimate mechanical part to something with the capacity to help a human being improve their health.

How can robotics be necessary in medicine? Here, Kariti shares some examples. The common part to all of them is that robotics can go where humans, due to their own limitations, cannot.

Robotics in surgical operations

In surgery, technological advances that have occurred since the beginning of the 21st century have led to a decrease in invasion in surgical operations, in addition to facilitating the task of surgeons.

Oded Kariti shares that some of the benefits:

· Laparoscopic surgery, minimally invasive, gallbladder removal operation and also in cardiology.

· Image-guided trauma surgery.

· Robotic system for hip and knee operations.

· Robotic prostheses

Kariti also point out that progress is being made in the research of robotic prostheses that can, in many cases, perform the replacement functions of some part of our body that has been damaged.

A robotic prosthesis is an autonomous and intelligent piece that, through sensors, processors and complex control processes, is capable of performing a functional bodily action.

“There is still a long way to go in the field of robotics, but the involvement is essential to continue researching for the benefit of society, with the aim of making technology as humane as possible,” says the independent researcher and scientist, Oded Kariti.