The first fully programmable robot was operated and used digital in 1961, and today there are nearly one million robots in use worldwide (International Federation of Robotics). Robots are not science fiction, they are now a part of our daily lives. The robots are used both at home and in manufacturing, education, military and medicine. Robots can build clean your car, your house, and now even the pulse.

 

Robots have helped Ward surgery for a while, but recent advances in robotics have developed a special robot roaming the corridors of a hospital may operate in your area. These robots are equipped with “Remote Presence” technology. Remote Presence is the ability of the power of robotics, telecommunications and the Internet to a “draft” someone from one place to another, and interact with them as if they were there. This technology is particularly useful in the health sector because there is simply not enough doctors and nurses around, especially in smaller hospitals or remote areas where there may not be readily available specialist. remote presence, a neurologist at Boston for a hospital bed in San Diego project.

 

InTouch Technologies is a company based in California with robotics opens its RP-7 robot. The RP-7 equipped with audio and visual technology is to enable bidirectional communication, that is, both parties can hear and see in real time. The RP-7 is quite clever, and the physician can control the robot’s cameras and sensors remotely to examine “the patient. Notebooks, printers, cameras, digital stethoscope or other devices can be mounted on the RP-7. In addition, stores and transmits information, such as electronic medical records, images echocardiography, ECG, ultrasound, and much more.

 

Instead of performing automated tasks in place of a man who is the RP-7, a vehicle of communication between people. Edgar. Managers trained doctor Assistance Robot-Robot a resident of Grande Ronde Hospital in Oregon since 2007. The staff has fully embraced technology for remote-presence. Edgar has delegated the virtual presence of specialists thousands of miles. In the maternity ward, photos of newborns are transmitted via EDGAR to determine whether they should be transferred to another hospital. EDGAR is not only doctors, patients to connect, it can take a patient’s electronic medical record and allow physicians and staff to consult with each other on the diagnosis and treatment.

 

InTouch robot is revolutionary in intensive care units, emergency rooms and patient rooms used nationally. Remarkable medical facilities with remote presence robots include: UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Trinity Health Care System, Sutter Health Care System, Detroit Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center.

 

What once seemed fantastic, is now a reality as the technology leader in robotics is an incredible pace. The International Federation of Robotics states that forty thousand robots have been in service areas at the end of 2006 medical, military, and that number should be used by 2010 nearly double. In some cases, robots are used to replace humans, but also the development of robot technology to extend our natural capabilities to accelerate and improve to provide information exchange. The remote presence robot RP-7 is an example.