The United Kingdom advanced medical robotics initiative

Author

Finlay, Patrick A.

Author_Institution

Fulmer Syst. Ltd., Slough, UK

fYear

1989

Firstpage

885

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96031

Filename

96031