Robotics

We share a collection of 8 major ones below, ordered from the most practical and promising to the least ones.

As futurists, we have constantly been exploring what the future of healthcare holds for medical professionals and patients alike for years. With the rate of […]

As the term implies, a surgical robot is an assistive tool for performing surgical procedures. Such manoeuvres, also called robotic surgeries or robot-assisted surgery, usually involve a human surgeon controlling mechanical arms from a control centre. 

Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters: every minute – if not every second – spent without treatment in such cases of medical emergencies and […]

If you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that […]

Medical robots will soon undertake many tasks in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office, making a difference in every field of medicine.

With over a dozen FDA approved exoskeletons and 84 existing medical products on the market we must prepare for great advancements in this segment.

The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, through which surgeries reach high levels of precision and efficiency.

With millions of nurses missing around the globe, the profession needs all the technological help available

As adding animals to a number of therapies provided benefits human therapists could not achieve, the same seems to be true for adding robots to some therapies: they can provide assistance neither humans nor pets can offer.

Enhancing human capabilities has been on the mind of people for ages, but superhumans came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons.

Robots could take blood better than most humans, freeing up time for doctors and nurses. But if choosing between a robot and a human, people prefer humans.

An oncologist administering nanorobots that swim through a patient’s bloodstream to deliver drugs in a highly targeted way. A person on a specific diet scanning their meal with a single device to reveal all of its major nutritional elements. A clinic’s transplant department 3D-printing whole organs. These are scenarios that sound like snippets extracted from a science-fiction novel. But these are digital health technologies that we will have to get used to in the future.

One can have multiple important tests at home. It’s private, it’s convenient but is it reliable? Discover the laboratory in your bathroom.

Every now and then we see something that freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist. From robot nannies taking care of human babies grown in artificial wombs to waking up with an electric shock.

Exoskeletons to aid pharma factory workers. 3D printing to allow pharmacies to produce drugs on the spot. Blockchain technologies to help fight counterfeit drugs.  These […]