The potential for clinical applications of medical robots is huge

Source：Updated：2017-05-19 08:11:58

Medical robots with high threshold, high starting point, high value, has been regarded as a "space engineering" of medical equipment industry, and gradually in the clinical diagnosis and treatment, surgery, home care and prognosis of rehabilitation, and other fields. The global market for medical robots is expected to reach $11.4 billion in three years, with the potential to form a trillion-yuan industrial chain in the future. 
 
Colorectal tumor branch, chairman of China physicians association, and vice-chair of minimally invasive surgery, second affiliated hospital of Harbin medical university, director of the surgical treatment of the colorectal cancer Wang Guiyu, says professor for the healthcare industry is preferred, because robot in accuracy, speed, strength, stamina, accuracy, stability, repeatability, etc, have a manual incomparable advantages. In other words, a robot doesn't matter how long it takes, even in the hundredth time when it is used. He points out that medical robots are medical devices, but they are different from simple medical devices. It can help doctors, expand doctors and become doctors' right assistants; At the same time, there is a certain level of intelligence that meets medical, clinical adaptability and good interactivity. 
 
According to the arterial network issued a "Chinese medical robot industry map", collected in the 36 medical robots in the enterprise information, the current research and development of the robot from the point of use, mainly divided into surgery, rehabilitation robots, robot assisted robots and four categories of service robot. 
 
At present, the surgical robot, with 60% of the surgical robot accounted for the top spot market in medical robots, including laparoscopic surgery robot system, orthopaedic surgery robot system, neurosurgery robot system, the robotic catheter can be manipulated, and other clinical surgical robot, can be used for image guided surgery and minimally invasive surgery. 
 
Of these, laparoscopic surgery is the largest application of surgical robotics. Cic adviser in the 2016-2020 Chinese medical robot industry depth research and investment outlook report pointed out that laparoscopic surgery robot industry share of 88.5% in 2014, other clinical surgery robot accounted for 11.5%. 
 
Wang Guiyu optimistic assessment, the future of minimally invasive surgery only need 5 mm ~ 1.5 centimeters wounds, enable doctors to smaller in patients with injury cases, complete some difficult surgery, surgery robot prospects will be more and more broad. 
 
Rehabilitation robot rehabilitation robot used for auxiliary and treatment of the elderly, patients with permanent or temporary disability and disabled people, the user can through the visual feedback or various input device control robot, perform simple tasks, such as the food in your mouth, books, standing and walking, and so on. 
 
Wang pointed out that the "popularity" of the rehabilitation robot has a major relationship with the change of population structure and disease patterns, policy push, and lack of market products. From 2009 to now, the relevant departments have issued policy, encourage, guide and support the development of rehabilitation medicine, led some public secondary general hospital, hospital business transformation into a rehabilitation hospital, such as conditional units according to business needs can be equipped with auxiliary equipment, rehabilitation robots and other intelligent devices; Since last June, will be included in health insurance increased from nine to 29 rehabilitation projects, including the exercise therapy, comprehensive training of hemiplegic limbs, hand function assessment have been incorporated into the medical treatment pay limits. 
 
By the end of 2014, there were 6,914 convalescing institutions nationwide and 2,181 physical and disabled rehabilitation training services. As far as human resources are concerned, only 367,000 people with physical disability will be able to conduct rehabilitation training. In this context, the advent of rehabilitation robots is far from sufficient to meet the enormous needs of the medical market. 
 
The assistant robot, wang guiyu, points out that there is no definitive definition of assisted medical robots. In addition, the robot, the robot, the virtual assistant, the robot that assist the operation, the robot, the robot, etc., are classified as the auxiliary robot. 
 
In transfusion medicine configuration robot, for example, accompanying with the development of medical technology, the deployment of vein with harmful drugs has gradually from normal therapy deployment model, evolution to the biological safety cabinet centralized deployment model, and the latest automated equipment to replace artificial deployment model. Our country independent research and development of the intravenous drugs allocation robot based on the clinical needs, with a unique platform for the intelligent technology to solve the current more than 90% of the clinical schering bottles, ampoule bottle deployment, and support a variety of solvent and infusion pattern deployment. 
 
The service robot service robot can be divided into medical and household classes. The former is a mobile robot in the hospital, which mainly helps nurses carry out the dispensing service and medical examination services. There are also sterilization and sterilization robots, which can solve the shortage of medical staff. Home service robots are mainly used for home care, service, and escort services. 
 
Wang Guiyu professor introduction, family carers robot often used to assist the elderly and the daily life of children, characteristics of services, security monitoring, interactive and multimedia entertainment and so on four big functions. Voice control is included some robots products online interaction, intelligent home control and health management, online education, counseling, independent security patrol, intelligent navigation and positioning, buy custom interpretation, remote video calls and other functions, become numerous members of the "new" of the family. 
 
Wang Guiyu stressed that the current market in medical robots, overseas companies are still overwhelmingly share, especially high-end robotics, foreign technology monopoly leads to high cost. However, the medical robot enterprise in China is still in its infancy, it has not yet achieved the scale of the product, and the penetration rate of medical institutions is low. But in the context of the national innovation-driven development strategy, artificial intelligence scientific research and industrialization process is accelerating, and the international advanced level gap is gradually narrowing.