Medical robots in the real world

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The recent Disney and the animation film "Super Can Marines" became the 2014-year animation of the Big Black Horse, a line to win the U.S. box office title, defeated unexpectedly is "Interstellar crossing." The author has written about how the robot tars in the interstellar crossing how to make, this time saw the animation of the Robot Health Assistant (Baymax), but also excited outraged! Isn't that the ideal medical robot? Disney is so cunning!

Disney is cunning, because the core of the animated story--The robotic health Assistant (Healthcare companion)--hits America's 2014 hottest entrepreneurial direction: Robotics and health care. Still remember Google with NEST, DeepMind and so on to buy 8 robot companies? The data from rock Tiyatien should know that the U.S. investment in the digital healthcare industry doubled in 2014 over the past year. In China, 2014 capital in the field of mobile medical investment is also the sum of the past three years.

China has made a "Chinese partner" and should allow Americans to be mad about medical and robotics? Although the balloon shell of the white is some children to, but carbon fiber skeleton, lovely design, with speech recognition and human body signs scanning ability, these are very reasonable and mainstream design. This cartoon is not a distant surreal, but is likely to come soon near the future. This will explain how to build a robotic health helper such as this one, as well as the development of robotics in the field of mobile medicine today.

Medical robots in the real world

The "Super Corps" animated film is adapted from the comic book of the same name, a combination of San Francisco and Tokyo's virtual city "Old Jingshan" ("San Fransokyo", American culture and Japanese culture, the protagonist is a robot-savvy child prodigy Hero (Hiro) and his American friends. Such a setting, but also embodies the cunning of Disney. Because from the robot culture or the actual technology development, Japan and the United States are indeed two major schools. In Japan, the humanoid robot has more than normal paranoia, the Americans are more active, the robot shape is changeable, the core is in the software system, especially artificial intelligence.

Touch health--, a veteran mobile medical company, has spent 8 years connecting 10,000 communities and clinics in the United States. has embraced strategic investment from IRobot, the top American robotics company, and the robotics company has created a series of robotic touch Tiyatien, called telemedicine robots.

From the rp-xpress that the nurse holds, and then to the Rp-vita that can carry a variety of robotic arms, these robots can play the role of Doctor surrogates in community hospitals, patients ' homes and wards. But touch Tiyatien never called them "robots", but "remote medical control Devices". This can be seen in the value of mobile medicine for robotics-remote control, which is one of the first values of robots, like drones.

In touch Tiyatien's latest introduction, they are already describing a future that will take place in 2015: "Our health care will be everywhere, from psychological care to health management, and so on." "A doctor Who controls a robot remotely will be able to track a patient's life for a long time, monitor his/her life habits and provide a more thorough treatment." The patient can summon the robot at any time, pick up the self diagnosis equipment on the body to test, all the health data is transmitted to all the doctors who contracted the patient, the doctor can communicate with the patient directly through the robot.

It is believed that the deployment of IRobot on the touch Tiyatien is not only for remote control, but perhaps when the doctor's remote diagnostics are accumulating, the robot will have more automated diagnostic functions, and then perhaps the white will appear. Up to now, Touch Tiyatien has completed 490,000 people through the robot diagnosis and treatment, the future is in sight!

twendy-one--This is the Japanese early rice Tana invented the robot, but also the Japanese clinging to humanoid robot evidence. Compared to the rugged American touch Tiyatien, Twendy-one's most important goal is to simulate human caregivers. The robot's hand is a strong imitation of human beings, in the initial demonstration can pick up the habit, squeeze ketchup, is expected to be put into use in 2015, to care for the elderly and patients. But the price is expensive, about 30 million yen.

Toyota--a collaborative robot in the four areas of nursing, medical care, manufacturing and product production, began in 07. This is the Japanese in their humanoid robot obsession on an innovation, they believe that robot automation is not destined for the future, as long as the ability to create a robot can work with humans, can be quickly put into production, such robots are called cooperative robots.

In 2011, Toyota released 4 robots for use in medical care to help people who were inconvenienced by the paralysis of the lower limbs, including "independent Walking Assistants", "Walking Practice assistants", "Balancing practice assistants," "helping to move assistants." "With the increasing number of children and aging, the robot for nursing and medical care will become more and more important," said Manichi, Toyota's director of special affairs.

The U.S. Army's telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center commissioned the Massachusetts Robotics company VECNA developed an automated battlefield rescue technology that eventually evolved into a battlefield assisted evacuation robot (bear) to achieve rescue, transport, and other rescue functions.

Tugboat-the El Caminu Hospital in Silicon Valley, Calif., uses a group of robots called Tugs (tugs), which are made by Aethon, the most important of which is to escort medicine and food to doctors and patients. They identify the route of the enclosed space, identify people and obstacles, and avoid collisions with doctors and nurses.

Even more legendary was the Aethon, which was recognized by the U.S. CDC and received 5000 orders for its tugs delivery capacity during the flooding of Ebola. One swoop from an obscure little robot company, into the world's top five. They were then given orders from NASA to take on the task of performing medical care in outer space.

hal--This is the most special type of robot, Zhubo University of Japan Cyberdyne's product HAL (Hybrid assistive limb), is the world's first as a wearable power system through the ISO13482 certified equipment, Its medical improvement is as medical equipment passed the EU CE certification. It is designed to help patients with lower limb muscle atrophy, when you want to stand up, walk, stop, lift your legs up and down the stairs, it will be appropriate to help you finish.

You can call Hal a wearable robot, and from the initials you can see that the Kubrick "2001 space roaming" means that the robot in that movie is called HAL. But the HAL prototype actually had a similar concept prototype machine Hardiman in the 1960s to help people lift heavy weights. But HAL's direct role as a device for human exoskeleton is truly revolutionary. No wonder the US Drapa (Department of Defense Advanced Research Program) many times buy, but the Japanese refused.

From all of the above robots that are already playing an important role in the medical field, you should be able to see the value point-the doctor's double, the nurse's surrogate, the limb replacement. The young man with artificial intelligence seems to have a long way to go in the serious medical field.

Origin: Aerospace Technology

To start thinking about the relationship between medical and robotics, it goes back to the 50 's, when NASA, which is preparing to conquer outer space, set up a dedicated space health research unit. In order to ensure the astronauts ' health in weightlessness, the use of telemetry technology to monitor and manage the impact of space flight on the physical and medical care of flight crews was first known as telemedicine (telemedicine) and the ancestor of mobile medicine. Telemedicine technology is developing with the development of manned spaceflight program, it is a key technology for the success of manned space flight plan, and it is an important component of the system of providing health care service for space program.

So the telemedicine leader has always had NASA, many of which are studying telemedicine technologies and applications, and are now studying technologies to support the current space shuttle and International Space Station programs, as well as developing new medical systems and technologies to secure future interplanetary exploration such as the Mars program. NASA's telemedicine technology has been used to provide health care services to people on Earth through many applications, especially in disaster relief, demonstrating its usefulness and sophistication. For example, now popular in-ear thermometer, the earliest application of the astronauts.

Robot is also with the development of aerospace technology, especially service-oriented robots. Even China, which recently began to conquer outer space, has been insisting on research related to outer space health in the 60 's, and the use of service-oriented robots to meet the needs of astronaut health care is also a very serious topic. Now telemedicine has been turned into telehealth, the face of the situation is more extensive, refers to medical experts using communications, sensing, multimedia, remote control technology to achieve disease diagnosis, treatment, health care, distance teaching and guidance, and other medical activities of the health model. Previously introduced touch Tiyatien belong to this ranks. At the previous 2014-year Health summit, telemedicine was still seen as an important branch of mobile medicine and another name for "Health interconnection".

Imagine that, in the near future, NASA's robotics and telemedicine technologies, which are ready to help humans build their bases on Mars, will be used by you and me, and more prepared to say that Leonardo da Vinci, an operating robot like IBM, will be infinitely inexpensive.

Mobile Medical Incubator Robot

To say that the medical field robot, can first say last year also will be this year's hot word--Mobile medicine, now everybody compares commonly the name is health. At the 2010 Mobile Healthcare Summit in the United States, a definition of health was made-to provide medical services through mobile devices. In this way, the robot that will move is very large and does conform to this definition.

But there is still a question as to why health, "mobile Tiyatien", translates into "mobility medicine" rather than "mobile health". In fact, the original name of this English is "emerging mobile communication and receptacle technologies for healthcare", translated is "health care industry emerging mobile communications and network technology."

Therefore, the rise of mobile medicine, the first fundamental reason is the development and popularization of communication and network technology, cost reduction, equipment popularization, especially the large number of smart phone deployment, only the outbreak of mobile medicine. It can be attributed to mobile medical care software, software for health management, motion management software for recording steps, or two years of heat-wearable equipment. In China, the introduction of the concept of mobile medicine is basically in 2011--March 2011 Concord's Good Doctor online release IPhone application, November Spring Doctor on-line.

So it seems that mobile medicine is still in the early stages of the development of the communication technology dividend, the distance evolved into robots, and even the artificial intelligence is far away? I think it will happen almost at the same time, because the revolution and cheapness of robotics are also the big propositions of the 2014. Francis Collins, Dean of the United States, has described the value of mobile medicine as a mobile medical practitioner: "Mobile devices provide an incredibly low-cost and real-time way to assess the physiology of disease, exercise, imaging, behavior, social, environmental, metabolic products, and some physical signs, Mobile medical technology may play a particularly important role in the innovation of biomedical research. ”

A 24-hour doctor-nurse is extremely expensive, but instead of a robotic health assistant, the cost is indeed surprisingly low. The United States has done so, and Japan has done so ...