This document discusses the use of robots in biomedical science and healthcare. It provides examples of different types of medical robots, including robots that help nurses, deliver supplies, assist with eating, and enhance therapy for children. It also discusses robotic prosthetics and orthotics, as well as robotic devices to rehabilitate the upper and lower limbs. In the future, more advanced robotic technologies may help paralyzed patients walk or balance. The document concludes by discussing the need for haptic feedback in medical robots and the goal of creating robots that are safe, accurate, affordable and compatible with standard medical equipment.

1. MANTHAN 2014
RAKSHPAL BAHADUR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
&
TECHNOLOGY
Robotics in Bio Medical
Science
Presented by:-
Shubhangini Srivastava
Anushree
B.Tech E.C.

2. Introduction
What is Robotics?
“The branch of technology that deals with the
design, operation & application of robots and
computer system for their control, sensory
feedback & information processing.”

3. What can Robots do?

4. 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.

5. Medical Robot
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.

6. Cardiac surgery done by a robot

7. Artificial Organs
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.

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

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

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

17. 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.

18. Robotic Organs
in
Human Body

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

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

21. 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.

22. Lower limb devices
The NASA jet propulsion lab and UCLA are
developing a robotics stepper for lower limb
rehabilitation.
These devices uses a pair of robotic arm that
resemble knee braces to guide the patient’s leg
while they move on a treadmill.

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

24. 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…
Last year, Toyota announced four robots made
to help paralyzed patients walk or balance
themselves. The robot acts as a two-wheeled
balancing game. The machine displays one of
three sports games on a monitor and requires
the patient to make moves in the game by
shifting his/her weight on the robot.

26. Conclusion
• Haptic feedback
• A safe, easy sterilizable, accurate, cheap and
compact robot.
• Reliable telesurgical capabilities.
• Compatibility with available medical
equipment and standardizing.
• Autonomous robot surgeons.