Can medical service robots solve the increasingly serious problem of pension?

With the continuous improvement of human medical technology, people's life expectancy is also continuously extended. One of the most obvious phenomena is that old people who have lived longer than centenarians in ancient times are largely difficult to find, but today, centenarians are no longer a rarity. At the same time, this has led to an increasingly serious social problem: Retirement!

Currently in China, more than 60 old people over the age of 200 million people, the problem of old age is increasingly serious. And the current domestic is entering the rapid development of population aging, the number of elderly people each year at an annual average of more than 8 million of the scale of the explosion. By 2020, the elderly population is expected to reach 255 million, 2033 to 400 million and 2050 to 483 million. But in the face of the larger and larger elderly groups, the domestic pension services and talent is far from keeping up, this period many only child families in addition to take care of their children, but also busy daily work, there is no more energy to take care of both parents, a large number of elderly people are facing the dilemma of old without.

　　The mobile medical tide fades, the intelligent Medical service has begun to rise

Under the impetus of the Internet, a large number of medical platforms combined with the internet began to emerge, but with the death of Doctor founder Rui, the whole mobile medical industry also began to enter the winter, in the capital enthusiasm ebb tide situation, seek medical ask medicine, good doctor, medical treatment 160 platform also has passed the transformation or layoffs news.

For a large number of old people, the mobile medical platform has not been able to solve their pension and medical problems. On the one hand, these old people do not use smartphones to call health care, on the other hand, mobile medicine is not able to solve the current lack of health care personnel status quo.

As a result, more and more start-up companies are looking at intelligent medical devices, on the one hand, through the sale of hardware to consumers to solve their problems, on the other hand through the elderly and patients with the user's heart rate, diet, exercise, sleep and other monitoring, and then collect the elderly and the patient's physiological data for professional medical institutions to provide reference services To improve the health management of the elderly and patients, especially for the elderly who are suffering from a gradual decline in the body's organs, this intelligent medical treatment can help them and prevent disease outbreaks, and good management of chronic disease.

And with the advent of intelligent medicine, all kinds of artificial intelligence technology has also begun to apply to all kinds of medical equipment, this collision began to emerge a variety of medical service robots.

　　First, nursing robot

Nursing robot is mainly for the elderly and patients to provide physical care services work, it is divided into two categories.

　　1. Home Medical Care Robot

Home medical care robot, through the medical service robot can be built into a variety of health care services platform, pharmacies, hospitals, doctors gathered on the platform. Not only can they provide health care for the elderly, but if the elderly are ill, medical service bots can also contact doctors through their own built-in services, and can even find pharmacies based on doctors ' prescriptions and buy drugs directly online.

In Japan, the Ri-man robot, developed by the Nagoya Institute of Biological Simulation Control Research Center in Japan, has not only a soft, safe outer shape, but also a tactile sensation on the arms and body, so that it can be carefully picked up or moved, and it is entirely possible for such robots to replace caregivers to care for the elderly or the infirm in the future.

In China, from the Shenzhen flag Han Technology launched the Sambo robot. This robot is a platform-based service robot, it has 60 + sensor chip, can achieve "see" "Listen" "Touch" "sniff" function, all-round perception of the surrounding environment, and scene wisdom into. Through the combination of various AI technologies, including semantic understanding and execution, face detection and recognition, autonomous sound source localization, automatic charging, autonomous walking and obstacle avoidance, intelligent bodyguard strategy, etc., can provide different intelligent services in different business scenarios. For example, in the medical aspect, it can use telehealth technology, realizes the nursing function, simultaneously reminds the old person to take medicine on time.

However, whether it is the Japanese Ri-man robot or the domestic Shenzhen Sambo robot, they want to fully help their children to complete the obligation to support the elderly, they also need to continue to improve the nursing function, and even need to improve some chat functions, for the elderly to resolve loneliness.

　　2. Hospital Nursing Robot

In hospitals, the cost of medical staff is greatly increased, especially in many daily care work, many hospitals often encounter insufficient manpower, this time the hospital care robot will be very useful. Hospital care robots are being accepted and used by more and more hospitals, from prescription robots to equipment delivery robots to disinfection robots.

In addition, health care workers often encounter a number of radioactive, infectious work environment, and some patients and elderly people even need 24 hours of medical care, this time the advantages of medical robots fully reflected. A technology company from Shanghai has launched a titanium-rice robot that can provide patients with timely infusion services, dispensing services, physical examination services, and rehabilitation care, and doctors can diagnose the patient based on the data measured by the robot.

The appearance of this kind of hospital nursing robot not only saves a lot of manpower cost, but also improves the working efficiency, even can handle the work that some hospital nursing staffs can't cope with.

In addition, Shenyang's largest enterprise new pine robot is to build the elderly companion machine, hands Robotics group as the first domestic and clinical use of the medical robot company, they also launched all kinds of hands service robot, and used in domestic, medical, business and other fields.

　　II. Remote Medical Service robot

For the chronic symptoms of a large number of older people, some robotics companies are starting to launch telemedicine services. The telemedicine robot developed by Mikleme can be used for mobile patrol monitoring in wards, and can also be taken care of by the elderly with disabilities. By installing a camera-based voice device, a routine sign-check device for a telemedicine robot, doctors can communicate and check with patients at any time in the office or at home, through a network command to a designated ward, and keep important data information at all times.

Beijing long-range Vision Robot Technology Co., Ltd. launched the Meng Meng family robot, through the hospital, doctors, terminals and other resources by virtue of the robot product service system, into the provinces and municipalities in pharmacies, primary medical institutions and other place, to provide users with near-distance, low-cost remote consultation, treatment, rehabilitation services.

For this kind of telemedicine service robot, the same can be achieved simple elderly medical care work, but they are more through the help of robots, so that doctors can better understand the patient's physical condition, so that the first time to understand the patient's symptoms and take effective preventive measures.

　　Third, medical robot

This kind of medical robot is through the vision to collect the human face, the tongue elephant, collects the human pulse through the machine collection or the hand ring, then uses the advanced computer vision, the machine study, the artificial intelligence and the deep learning algorithm, the intelligent interpretation human body's face, the tongue image and the pulse data, then unifies the consultation information, Finally, through the TCM unites model to infer the body's overall healthy physique type, and provides the individualized rehabilitation suggestion according to the specific situation, including the health care principle, the diet medicinal herbs, the living regimen, the acupressure, the Chinese medicine method and the music therapy and so on.

In other words, this health management robot and home care robot is different, it is more powerful, it can directly to the elderly patients in the physical condition, to propose a variety of treatment methods.

It is also because the medical robot needs to be a doctor's skill level, but also need to ensure that the robot in the process of diagnosing patients without misdiagnosis and so on, so it is very difficult. At present, many medical robot companies at home and abroad are trying to build such a medical robot, but no robot can fully achieve this ideal state.

　　Iv. Surgical Robot

The operation robot is widely used, and the most influential one in the world today is the Da Vinci robot. It is a very advanced robotic platform that can perform complex surgical procedures using minimally invasive methods and is now widely used in general surgery, thoracic surgery, urology, obstetrics and Gynecology, head and neck surgery, and heart surgery. However, Da Vinci robots up to more than 20 million of the expensive price and after-sales service costs, but also to the domestic many small and medium-sized hospitals deterred.

In November 2013, the "minimally Invasive Surgery robot system" developed by Harbin Institute of Robotics broke the technology monopoly of the imported da Vinci surgical Robot and accelerated the implementation of the domestic minimally invasive surgery robot assisted surgery. At the same time, more and more technology companies in China have begun to develop surgical robots.

Through the application of new technology, especially minimally invasive surgery, the operation robot can make many middle and old people who are not suitable for operation to operate minimally invasive surgery by Operation Robot, which greatly reduces the physical hazard of the operation for middle and old people.

　　Five, rehabilitation robot

Rehabilitation robots are more likely to provide better physical recovery management for patients after a disease, especially for older people who may not be well cared for after surgery, or even worsen, and the role of a rehabilitation robot is highlighted. The rehabilitation robot can effectively assist the medical treatment, and provide an effective physical recovery program for the patients by deeply studying the law of Body movement rehabilitation.

China is rapidly entering an aging society, and in the next twenty or thirty years there will be more than 400 million elderly patients over 60 years of age and more than 500 million patients with chronic diseases needing rehabilitation. On the one hand, the population aging increases the disability probability and the number of disabled persons, the elderly due to physiological function decline, cerebrovascular disease, bone joint disease, stroke and the incidence of moderate morbidity and disability increased; On the other hand, chronic chronic disease patients in the acute phase of the treatment of chronic disease disability rate is more and more high. Rehabilitation robots can help patients with mobility disorders (such as stroke, traumatic nerve injury, spinal cord injury, limb deformities, mobility disorders due to aging, etc.) for efficient treatment and rehabilitation.

At present, there are some good rehabilitation robots abroad, such as the 7-DOF Upper limb rehabilitation robot CADEN-7 developed by the University of Washington, can realize the stretching/flexion of the shoulders, the internal/external rotation, the arm rotating, elbow flexion/extension, forearm rotation, wrist flexion/extension, outreach/introverted, etc. the Royal Swiss Institute of Technology and Balgrist University Affiliated hospital developed 6 degrees of freedom of the upper limb rehabilitation robot Armin, can achieve the whole machine's upper and lower translation, shoulder rotation inside/outside, the big arm rotation, elbow flexion/extension, shoulder flexion/extension, forearm rotation and other movements. In the recent 76th China International Medical Device (Autumn) exposition, the domestic Xing long intelligent sports Rehabilitation robot is directly exhibited eight intelligent sports rehabilitation robot products.

　　Summarize

China, as the world's largest populous nation, is now fully moving towards an ageing phase. Faced with the increasing size of the users of the elderly, many couples are facing the daily care of 4 elderly people, the elderly is becoming an increasingly serious social problems. The rise of artificial intelligence technology has promoted the development of Intelligent Medical Service robot, and the robots of different service types, such as nursing robot, surgical robot, rehabilitation robot, medical robot, remote Medical service robot, are emerging, and only they can help us solve the old-age problem.

　　Liu Yan, Zen Road ponder Internet, public number: liukuang110

Can medical service robots solve the increasingly serious problem of pension?