AI for Healthcare Robotics

Dr. Fosch-Villaronga is an Assistant Professor at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL), where he investigates legal and regulatory aspects of the robot and AI technologies, with a special focus on healthcare, governance, diversity, and privacy.

Hadassah Drukarch is a researcher at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL), and the founder of The Law of Tech. Her work navigates between law, new technologies, Business & entrepreneurship, Governance, Diversity and Human Rights.

What is artificial intelligence (AI)? What is healthcare robotics? How can AI and healthcare robotics assist in contemporary medicine?

Robotics and AI can offer society unimaginable benefits, such as enabling wheelchair users to walk again, performing surgery in a highly automated and minimally invasive way, and delivering care more efficiently. AI for Healthcare Robotics explains what healthcare robots are and how AI empowers them in achieving the goals of contemporary medicine.

Robotics and AI offer society unimaginable benefits from enabling wheelchair users to walk again, perform surgery in a highly automated and minimally invasive way, and deliver care more efficiently. AI for Healthcare Robotics explains what healthcare robots are and how AI empowers them in achieving the goals of contemporary medicine.

Foreword. Authors. Introduction. 1 Defining the Domains of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 2 Defining Healthcare Robotics. 3 AI for Surgical Robots. 4 AI for Socially Assistive Robots. 5 AI for Physically Assistive Robots. 6 AI for Healthcare Service Robots. Conclusion. Index.