Robots To Assist Doctors During Coronavirus Outbreak
Chinese researchers have developed new medical robots to work on the frontline, during the virus outbreak, reported Reuters on March 5. Medical robot can perform tasks that are usually performed by frontline doctors, like listening to the organs with stethoscope, checking the mount, or completing…
Robots Help Humans to Combat Coronavirus
Disinfection and medical delivery robots are being deployed in China to combat coronavirus outbreak, reported local news outlet Xinhua Net. More than 30 disinfection robots created by Shanghai enterprise TMiRob are currently working in the major hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak. According…
Swiss Engineer Develops No Touch Robotics
Marcel Schuck, a scientist from ETH Zurich university, has presented the prototype of the robot that can manipulate small and fragile objects without touching them, using the sound waves, shared the university in the press release from January 21. Using the technology named “acoustic levitation”,…
Robot Da Vinci Assists at Australian-first robotic Kidney-transplant Surgery
Westmead Hospital doctors have successfully performed an Australian-first robotic kidney-transplant surgery procedure, reported the hospital on December 23. The procedure was performed on Timothy Sawley, diagnosed with end-stage renal failure, whose wife Talitha has agreed to donate one of her kidneys as a Christmas gift….
Researchers Use Robotics to Navigate Medical Brain Interventions
Researchers from the Polytechnique Montréal have invented a technique to make robotic navigations of tethered instruments possible for deep vascular regions, such as a human brain. Navigation through blood vessels requires the miniaturisation of instruments to the degrees where previously designed tools become unpractical. To…
