Nov 24, 2009 Posted by admin in Healthcare Robots

Healthcare Robots

Welcome to Healthcare Robots. Robots will find an especially large use soon in the healthcare industry. The daVinci robot has been in use for over a decade in hospitals around the world – performing all types of minimally invasive surgery. In the pharmacy industry, a company called Script Pro manufactures a robot designed to help pharmacies fill prescriptions.

McKesson’s Robot RX is another healthcare robotics product that helps pharmacies dispense thousands of medications daily with little or no errors. This massive robot is ten feet wide and thirty feet long and can hold hundreds of different kinds of medications and thousands of doses.

In Japan, several healthcare robots for the home are already on the market. Japanese engineers expect robots to be available for commercial household use by 2010. The domestic market for Japanese commercial and industrial robots may be as high as $8 billion dollars by this time, and like most Japanese electronics, will be marketed to the industrialized world shortly thereafter.

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Nov 20, 2009 Posted by admin in Articles

Da Vinci Robot: Best Choice For Prostate Surgery?

By Michael Kaempf

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-skin cancer in men – about 30 percent of all cancers are prostate and 15 percent of men are likely to get it.

Radical prostatectomy has the highest cure rate for an organ-confined disease of all treatments although 10-20 percent have additional prostatic disease after pathologic evaluation.

Traditionally, surgery has been done “open” (retropubic or perineal), but since 1997 the laparoscopic approach has gained acceptance. Around 2001, the robotic approach started to become idealized. By 2005, about 20 percent of radical prostatectomies were performed with the da Vinci™ surgical system from Intuitive Surgical. Although the da Vinci robot was named after Leonardo da Vinci, who made the first robot, the term was coined by Capek in a Czech play in 1921. Technically, the da Vinci™ Surgical System is not technically a robot, it’s a “remote computer assisted tele-manipulator.”

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