Title :
The United Kingdom advanced medical robotics initiative
Author :
Finlay, Patrick A.
Author_Institution :
Fulmer Syst. Ltd., Slough, UK
Abstract :
The author discusses the International Advanced Robotics Programme (IARP), which identified an opportunity to develop advanced robotics for medical and healthcare applications. As a result of this initiative, a feasibility study was commissioned by the UK Department of Trade and Industry to identify specific targets for robotics within the healthcare field. Three prime candidates were selected: a surgery assistant, a patient handler, and a fetch and carry robot for the disabled. Each of these is now the subject of a detailed project definition study by a consortium of industrial, academic and medical institutions. These studies should result in a user-driven specification for the three advanced robots and lead to the construction of demonstrator systems in 1991-2
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; handicapped aids; patient care; robots; surgery; International Advanced Robotics Programme; United Kingdom advanced medical robotics initiative; demonstrator systems; disabled; fetch and carry robot; healthcare applications; patient handler; surgery assistant; Construction industry; Intelligent sensors; Knowledge based systems; Manipulators; Medical robotics; Medical services; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Service robots; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96031
