Medical robot refers to a robot used for medical treatment or auxiliary medical treatment in hospitals and clinics; Is an intelligent service robot, it can independently work out the operation plan, determine the action program according to the actual situation, and then turn the action into the movement of the operation mechanism.
According to different uses, medical robots can be divided into hospital delivery robot, mobile patient robot, clinical medical robot, rehabilitation robot, nursing robot, medical teaching robot and so on.
What are the types of medical robots?
Hospital delivery robot
Hospital delivery robot takes mobile robot as carrier, is a battery-powered, autonomous navigation unmanned automated transport system.
Traditional hospital logistics mode of transmission is in all kinds of things basic completed by patients, health care workers or full-time delivery team, streamline the lack of a clear distinction between traffic flow and logistics, and logistics crossing situation is relatively serious, often lead to logistic chaotic phenomenon, there are all kinds of personnel of the potential for a cross infection and contaminated items, damaged, missing phenomenon.
It is based on a variety of reasons, in the past two years, logistics machine talents gradually began to emerge in some big hospitals.
The intelligent delivery robot is mainly responsible for delivering medicine, food to the isolation area and recycling clothing and medical waste in the hospital. Through the intelligent dispatching of the "brain" control center, they can independently open and close the door, independently take the elevator, independently avoid obstacles, independently charge and other functions, without human operation.
Ultraviolet disinfection lamp is installed in the robot cabinet, which can keep the box and items safe at any time. The robot also has remote real-time voice and video communication functions, and can communicate directly with the nurses or patients in the isolation ward through the dispatching system. Drug delivery robots can replace nurses to deliver meals, cases and laboratory tests, etc.
Mobile patient robot
Mobile patient robots, a type of assistive robot that helps nurses move or transport paralyzed and immobile patients, are among the least in demand.
Clinical medical robot
Clinical robots include surgical robots, diagnostic and therapeutic robots, which can carry out precise surgery or diagnosis, such as Japan's WAPRU-4 chest tumor diagnostic robot; American surgical robot "Da Vinci system", etc., is the most important medical robot.
The first robot-assisted surgery was performed in 1985, using industrial robots to stabilize a patient's head to facilitate drilling and tissue sampling needles for neurosurgery.
The most famous robot in the industry is the Da Vinci, whose success is partly due to its FDA approval for clinical use. Domestic Tianzhihang company has also obtained the registration license of surgical robot medical devices issued by China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), becoming the only orthopaedic robot system in the world that can carry out orthopaedic trauma and spinal surgery.
Rehabilitation robot
Rehabilitation robots mainly serve the disabled and can help them recover their ability to live independently, such as the Prab Command system in the United States.
Rehabilitation robot is a combination of industrial robot and medical robot. Its research has been carried out in many fields such as rehabilitation medicine, biomechanics, mechanics, mechanical mechanics, electronics, materials science, computer science and robotics, and has become a research hotspot in the international robot field. At present, the research of rehabilitation robot mainly focuses on rehabilitation manipulator, hospital robot system, intelligent wheelchair, prosthesis and rehabilitation robot. It not only promotes the development of rehabilitation medicine, but also drives the development of new technologies and new theories in related fields.
Nursing robot
Nursing robot not only has the ability of vision, hearing, smell and so on, but also can carry people on the back, can take care of the elderly, in the functional design fully consider the characteristics and needs of the elderly, the disabled in bed, so as to achieve a high degree of humanization and intelligence integration.
Medical teaching robot
Medical teaching robots are ideal, such as Noel, an American teaching robot that can simulate a pregnant woman about to give birth and can even talk and scream. Through simulating real delivery, it is helpful to improve surgical cooperation and on-the-spot response of obstetrics and gynecology medical staff.
There are many kinds of medical robots in China, including rehabilitation robots, auxiliary robots, surgical robots, non-therapeutic service robots and other robots. Among them, rehabilitation robots accounted for the main proportion, accounting for 42%, followed by auxiliary robots, accounting for 17%, surgical robots 16%, non-therapeutic service robots 8%.
In terms of the distribution of medical robot enterprises, China's medical robot enterprises are mainly distributed in Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and other cities, accounting for more than half of the total number of enterprises. The main reason is that first-tier cities have complete industrial chains and rich market channels in the field of medical equipment.
