Recent FDA Workshop on Medical Care Robots attempts to standardize and classify emerging robotic medical care devices and products.
Emerging technologies included micro surgery, surgery assistance, personal care and therapy robots, telepresence robots, smart devices such as an artificial pancreas, NOTES and single port surgery (which uses natural orifices and internal incisions to navigate to spots needing attention), and image and robot guided placement of instruments.
Details on Everything-Robotic blog.
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