Preface

Medical robots have significant potential for treating patients quickly and comfortably. Medical professionals increasingly prefer robotic technology because of its utility for several medical applications. Medical robots are employed for surgical operations, such as cardiac surgery, prostate surgery, plastic surgery, kidney surgery, and more. They are especially preferred for surgery over traditional methods because they present better results, including smaller incisions, greater accuracy, and shortened recovery time. Medical robots are also used for several other procedures such as transporting blood from one place to another, preparing substances in a hazardous environment, diagnosing illnesses, and caring for patients.

Robotic technology is at a very interesting point, especially in terms of medical robots. The replacement of medical personnel by robots may be inevitable. Every passing year, many new robotic designs are developed to help people of all ages, from children to the elderly. This book presents the latest developments in medical robotics and innovative designs of the future. It also examines current medical robotic systems and applications.

I would like to thank all authors who contributed to this book with their valuable novel ideas and their knowledge of current developments in medical robotics.

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Section 1

Introduction

Section 1 Introduction

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**Chapter 1**

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**1. Introduction**

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Medical Robots

Introductory Chapter: Future of

In real life, most of us perform repetitive tasks in factories, school, hospitals and so on. Several people do not like these kinds of tasks and get bored from working offices as well as their jobs. Especially, medical staffs in the hospitals perform thousands of repetitive tasks such as draw blood, make dental filling, visualize patients' vital signs like measuring the human heart rate. Medical staffs make never-ending diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. As the average life expectancy increases day by day in the world, people are getting older. As the people getting older, the number of patients is increasing more than in the past. As a result of this increase, surgeons execute never-ending surgeries under the pressure of performance; laboratory workers perform never-ending urine and blood tests and dentists always tirelessly remove build-up or decay from teeth. It is possible to multiply

Being in a hospital is a very stressful experience even in the best occasion. Especially waiting the medical treatment on the que is a tiring practice. In addition, being treated on time is directly related to the country's health staff and technical opportunities. In most countries in the world, due to the lack of medical staff or technique equipment, even for a simple dental filling, sometimes it is necessary to wait in line for months. Medical personnel are often physically and mentally fed up with this endless intensity. At this very moment, medical robots come to the aid of

As an example, robotic medical staffs like robotic nurses, robotic laboratory devices, robotic surgeons can fulfill the boring tasks mention above. Robots are the best candidates to execute the repetitive, monotonous and dangerous tasks without being bored, tired and overwhelmed. According to the market investigations, the

Almost 80 years have passed since the development of the first robot manipulator. Robots, which were originally produced only for industrial purposes, have spread to many areas over time. Today, robots have become equipped enough to work alone in a factory, skilled enough to participate in operations in a hospital, and smart enough to bring a selected product from a shopping mall. The rise of robotic technology and the replacement of workers by robots has become an inevitable reality. It has now become impossible to prevent the development of robotic technology. Now, robots have gained the competence to work in the same office with humans. In the near future, it seems inevitable that some people will completely leave their jobs to robots [1, 2]. At this

market size of surgical robots alone has already exceeded 5 billion dollars.

**2. Medical robots transforming the healthcare system**
