Robotics in Healthcare

The European Commission has assigned TNO the task of exploring the possible healthcare applications of robotics. Together with eighty experts from around the world, TNO has developed a roadmap that identifies, among other things, the most promising areas of innovation. Six of these are contained in the roadmap:

- Smart medical capsules

- Robotised surgery

- Smart Intelligent prosthesis

- Robotised analysis of motion coordination and therapy

- Robotised patient monitoring systems

- Robot-supported psychic, cognitive and social therapy

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