...Richard Bloss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how mobile robots are addressing a variety of hospital logistic needs. Design/methodology/approach The paper includes in‐depth interviews with developers of the Aethon hospital mobile robot logistics system. Findings Robotics can...

... at the end of the previous decade by the introduction of robotic surgery systems. Discusses the backgrounds for development of the Intuitive Surgical “Da Vinci” systems and gives an overview of current status and functionality. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Robotics Hospitals Innovation Another...

... in a minimally invasive fashion for reduced patient pain, trauma and recovery time; and enabling new procedures that would otherwise be impossible to perform due to human limitations. To maximize the benefits to the hospital, staff and, most importantly, patients, the introduction of robotics necessitates...

... the femur. Robots Hospitals The ROBODOC Surgical Assistant System provides computer assisted planning and execution of bone milling for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty procedures (Plate 1). In essence, the ROBODOC is an integrated planning tool and surgical instrument...

... and Second World Wars. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Robots Medical products Hospitals The WAM^tm is the gentle link between information space and the physical world, transforming rich visual data and accurate surgical plans into cooperative motions, force, and trajectories...

...‐guided surgery, be able to decrease surgeon variability. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Robots Hospitals Surgery Medical The operating room (OR) of today may soon be replaced by the operating room of the future, an intelligent OR which features computer‐enhanced and robotic systems...

... accurately and perform a pre‐operative plan prior to total hip replacement (THR) surgery. ISS recently went public on the NASDAQ Small Cap market. ORTHODOC has received US FDA approval, while ROBODOC’s approval is still pending. More than 850 patients in six hospitals worldwide have received surgical...