Medical and Healthcare Robotics

Medical and Healthcare Robotics: New Paradigms and Recent Advances provides an overview and exclusive insights into current trends, the most recent innovations, and concerns in medical robotics. The book covers the major areas of medical robotics, including rehabilitation devices, artificial organs, assistive technologies, service robotics, and robotic devices for surgery, exploration, diagnosis, therapy, and training. It highlights the limitations and the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence for medical and healthcare applications. The book is a timely and comprehensive reference guide for undergraduate-level students, graduate students, and researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, control systems engineering, and biomedical engineering. It can be useful for master‿s programs, leading consultants, and industrial companies. The book can be of high interest for physicians and physiotherapists and all technical people in the medical and biomedical fields.

1. Assistive robotic technologies: An overview of recent advances in medical applications 2. Soft Robotics in Medical Applications: State-of-the-art, Challenges and Recent Advances 3. Rehabilitation Robotics:?History, Applications, and Recent Advances 4. Gait Devices for Stroke Rehabilitation: State-of-the art, Challenges, and Open Issues 5. Robotic Device for Upper Limb Rehabilitation: A Review 6. Failure of Total Hip Arthroplasty: State of the Art 7. Artificial Intelligence in Robot-Assisted Surgery: Applications on Surgical Skills Assessment and Transfer 8. A Virtual-based Haptic Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System: From Development to Validation 9. Medical and Healthcare Robots in India 10. Trend of Implementation of Service Robots in Medical Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A review 11. Conclusions and Perspectives