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The Arlington Hospital in Texas just acquired a cardiac robot controlled by the surgeons from the monitors and a joystick.

This is one of the few hospitals to be equipped with this type of device in the United States.

Doctor Bill Nesbitt relieves patients of chest pains, using his catheter robot.

The advantages of this new technology are plenty: significant time savings, less radiation, and greater accuracy when steering the catheter.

In the near future, would the surgical profession be opened to people skilled in computers, keyboards and joysticks (video games)? Anything can happen.

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The RP-7 robot resembles a great boot fitted with a screen and a video camera.

It is 5 foot tall (1.52 m) and allows patients and hospital staff to communicate with doctors at anytime.

In addition one can connect it to electronic measuring devices (stethoscopes, otoscopes and ultrasounds) to transmit medical data.

This robot is already working in the Ryder Trauma Center at the Jackson Medical Center of the University of Miami (Florida).

More information at the company site InTouch Health.

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Here is a 3D animation of a medical surgery robot made by Medtech.fr.

The model presented below is used in neurosurgery and its goal is to help the specialist to perform safer and more accurate surgical procedures.

Clearly, it allows implementing less invasive surgical techniques.

This product from MedTech is a new generation of CAMI (Computer Assisted Medical Interventions).

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Here is a wheelchair robot that can serve the elderly, disabled, or handicapped.

The innovation in this type of technology is that the chair supports you in all your movements.

For example, you lean forward and it goes forward. You turn to the right and the chair follows.

The sensors on the backrest and seat detect center of gravity movements. The person did not even need to use his hands to communicate the instructions.

The robot is also equipped with a video camera capable of recognizing certain gestures from people facing it and going to meet them. It also helps defining pre-established paths for moving indoors.

This model was displayed at the 2009 International Robot Exhibition in Japan.

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