Basic types of medical robots

There are many types of medical robots, according to their different purposes, including clinical medical robots, nursing robots, medical teaching robots, and robots for serving people with disabilities.
Hospital delivery robot
Intelligent delivery robots are mainly responsible for delivering medicine, delivering meals to quarantine areas, and recycling bedding and medical waste within the hospital area. They can achieve functions such as autonomous door opening and closing, autonomous elevator riding, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and autonomous charging through the intelligent scheduling of the "brain" control center, without the need for personnel operation. The cabinet is equipped with ultraviolet disinfection lights, which can maintain the safety of the box and items at any time. The robot also has remote real-time voice and video communication function, which can communicate directly with nurses or patients in the isolation ward through the scheduling system. Drug delivery robots can replace nurses in delivering meals, cases, and laboratory tests.
Mobile Patient
Mobile patient robots mainly help nurses move or transport paralyzed and disabled patients;
Clinical medicine
Clinical medical robots include surgical robots and diagnostic and treatment robots, which can perform precise surgical operations or diagnoses, such as Japan's WAPRU-4 chest tumor diagnostic robot; American scientists are developing a surgical robot called the Da Vinci System, which has been certified by the US Food and Drug Administration. It has four mechanical tentacles. Under the control of doctors, the "Da Vinci System" accurately completes heart valve repair surgery and cancer tissue resection surgery. NASA plans to conduct medical robot operation experiments in its underwater laboratory and on space shuttles. At that time, doctors can operate underwater and extraterrestrial surgeries in front of computers on the ground.
Medical robots in the United States will also be applied in the military field. In 2005, the US military invested $12 million in researching the "battlefield trauma management system". This robot device is installed in tanks and armored vehicles. During wartime, the robot can perform simple surgeries on the injured, stabilize their condition, and wait for rescue through instructions sent from the headquarters by doctors.
Robots Serving Disabled Persons
Robots that serve people with disabilities, also known as rehabilitation robots, can help them recover their ability to live independently, such as the Prab Command system in the United States.
Nursing robots
British scientists are developing a nursing robot that can be used to share the heavy and trivial nursing work of nursing staff. The newly developed nursing robot will help medical staff confirm the patient's identity and accurately distribute the required medication. In the future, nursing robots can also check the patient's temperature, clean the ward, and even assist doctors in timely understanding the patient's condition through video transmission.
Medical teaching robots
Medical teaching robots are ideal teaching aids. American healthcare workers are currently using a teaching robot called "Noel", which can simulate pregnant women about to give birth and even speak and scream. By simulating real delivery, it helps to improve the surgical cooperation and on-site response of obstetrics and gynecology medical staff.