Medical Robots are robots that allow doctors greater and more precise and less-invasive access to area of operations. They are in most telemanipulators which use doctor’s action on one side and an "effector" on the other side. Their task is to control the movements of the doctor's work and decide the tasks that need to be performed. The effector, as the name suggests, has to perform those tasks.

Types of medical robots

Surgical robots

Robotic surgery

Robotic surgery, computer-assisted surgery, and robotically-assisted surgery are terms for technological developments that use robotic systems to aid in surgical procedures....

: Their most important feature is the increased precision and quality of operations.
Rehabilitation robots

Rehabilitation robotics

Rehabilitation robotics is a field of research dedicated to understanding and augmenting rehabilitation through the application of robotic devices. Rehabilitation robotics includes development of robotic therapies.-Overview:...

: This group facilitates and supports the lives of infirm, elderly people, or those with dysfunction of movement organs. These robots are also used for rehabilitation and any related procedures, such as training or therapy.
Biorobots

Biorobotics

Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study.Biorobotics is often used to refer to a real subfield of robotics: studying how to make robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically or even...

: It's a group of robots designed to imitate humans and animals that we use for cognitive aims. We are also dealing here with robotic systems.

External Links

• RobInHeart
• Medical Robots Conference