It was a quality time speaking about "Biomedical Robotics for a Sustainable Future" with IEEE SB LBS Institute of Technology for Women, on the occasion of an amazing series of sessions - EXPLORICA 2.0 - Bringing together Industry, Technology, and Environment.

1. Biomedical Robotics For
A Sustainable Future
October 17, 2020
Mehak Azeem
IEEE SB LBSITW
EXPLORICA 2.0

2. Biomedical Engineer | UG Researcher,
IEEE EMBS SAC Member,
IEEE R10 SAC Member | Social Media Coordinator
World’s SDG Regional Advocate 2020, Pakistan
IEEE R10 Collabratec Regional Coordinator
IEEE Brand Ambassador
Engr. MEHAK AZEEM

3. Biomedical Robotics
The Biomedical Robotics research focus area is
centered on the design, development, and
evaluation of medical robotics systems and smart
assistive robotic platforms that enhance the
physical capabilities of both patients and clinicians
via advancements in mechanical design, modeling
and control, sensor.

4. Robotics
● Robotics is an interdisciplinary research area at the
interface of computer science and engineering.
Robotics involves design, construction, operation,
and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design
intelligent machines that can help and assist
humans in their day-to-day lives and keep
everyone safe.

5. Hi-Tech Robots
● Now-a-days Hi-tech robots gives
nurses helping hand, robots carry
plates, clinical wastes, dirty linen
and medical supply between
wards and be used for sorting
pills and cleaning operation
theatre.

6. Medical Robots
● There are computer integrated
surgery (CIS) system first and
“Medical Robots” second the
robot itself is just one element for
larger system designed to assist a
surgeon in carrying out a surgical
procedure.

7. Cardiac Surgery Done
by A Robot!

8. Artificial Organ
● If you loose an arm or a leg it won’t a
problem an arm or leg made of plastic
will be replaced a Hi-tech bionic hand
was given after loosing his arm in an
accident.

9. Classification
● Depending on the degree of
surgeon interaction during the
procedures, they are :-
• Supervisory controlled
• Tele-Surgical
• Shared-control

10. Healthcare Sector Robots
● Vasteras Giraff
● Aethon Tug
● Bestic
● CosmoBot
● Microbots
● AnyBots
● Swisslog Robocourier
● Robots for Paralyzed patient.

11. Vasteras Giraff
● The Vasteras Giraff is a mobile
communication tool that enables
the elderly to communicate with the
outside world. It's remote
controlled, and it has wheels, a
camera and a monitor.

12. Aethon Tug
● The Aethon Tug is an automated
system that allows a facility to move
supplies such as medication, linens
and food from one space to another.
End users can attach the system to a
variety of hospital carts to transport
supplies and it can be employed for a
variety of applications.

13. Bestic
● Bestic is a small robotic arm with a
spoon on the end. The arm can be
easily maneuvered, and a user can
independently control the spoon's
movement on a plate to choose
what and when to eat.

14. CosmoBot
● Doctors use CosmoBot to enhance
the therapy of developmentally
disabled children Between 5 and
12 years old.

15. MicroBots
● An assortment of free-roaming robots
that carry out precise, delicate tasks
inside the human body. Its power
sources are external electromagnetic
coils, and it uses magnetic field
gradients as a steering mechanism.

16. AnyBots
● AnyBots provides a type of immersive
telepresence, meaning instead of
focusing merely on audio and video
communications, the AnyBots robot
allows for movement controlled by a
remote.

17. Swisslog Robocourier
● The Swisslog Robocourier is an
autonomous mobile robot. The tool
dispatches and delivers specimens,
medications and supplies throughout
the hospital.

18. Robots for the Deaf and Blind
• Dexter, a robotic hand
communication aid for people who
are both deaf and blind.
• Uses finger spelling to
communicate information typed on
a keyboard stored in a computer or
received from a special telephone.

19. Robotic Organs In Human
Body?

20. Prosthetics
● This commercially available arm
is controlled using feedback from
electromyography (EMG) sensors
that measure the response of a
muscle to nervous stimulation.

21. Orthotics
● An Orthotic is a mechanism used to assist or support a
weak or infective joint, muscle or limb.

22. Upper Limb Devices
● Robotic therapy devices have also been
developed for rehabilitating the hand and fingers.
This glove has four pneumatic actuators, locate in
palm, which interact independently with the index,
middle, ring finger and the thumb of the right hand.

23. Strengths and Limitations
Strengths:-
• Physical separation.
• Wrist action.
• Tremor elimination.
• Optional motion scaling.
• 3-D stereoscopic image.
• Electronic information transfer (tele-surgery)

24. Strengths and Limitations
Limitations:-
● Reluctance to accept this technology (trust).
● Additional training.
● Most of the sensor is IR transmission.
● Highly efficient visual instructions are needed.
● Cannot be pre-programmed.
● Longer operating time.

25. Future Aspects
● Robotics will become an integral
component of surgery in the future,
replacing endoscopic and open
approaches in many settings.
However, the transition should be
carefully monitored, risks and
benefits rigorously evaluated, and
cost-benefit analysis performed to
determine a safe role for robotics in
each stage of its evolution and in
different clinical applications.

26. Thank you! 
Email: [mehakazeem@ieee.org]