Healthcare Robotics
This is an incremental review paper that addresses the need for evidence and collaboration to enable widespread deployment of robots in healthcare.
The article contextualizes robots in healthcare by identifying stakeholders, settings, and tasks, reviewing recent advances, and outlining challenges and opportunities for adoption, without presenting specific results or numbers.
Robots have the potential to be a game changer in healthcare: improving health and well-being, filling care gaps, supporting care givers, and aiding health care workers. However, before robots are able to be widely deployed, it is crucial that both the research and industrial communities work together to establish a strong evidence-base for healthcare robotics, and surmount likely adoption barriers. This article presents a broad contextualization of robots in healthcare by identifying key stakeholders, care settings, and tasks; reviewing recent advances in healthcare robotics; and outlining major challenges and opportunities to their adoption.