2008-10-03 12:30:32 - Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report analysing the market for healthcare robots.

'Healthcare Robots: Surgical Assist, Campus, Personal Services, and Pharmaceutical Robot Market Shares, Market Strategies, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014', which is available at www.reportbuyer.com/go/WIN00043 reports that markets at $626.5 million in 2007 are anticipated to reach $1 billion in 2008 and $14 billion by 2014.

The report shows that during a robot assisted surgical procedure, the patient-side

cart is positioned next to the operating table with the electromechanical arms arranged to provide access to the initial ports selected by the surgeon. Metal tubes attached to the arms are inserted through the ports, and the cutting and visualisation instruments are introduced through the tubes into the patient's body.

It further shows that robotic surgical systems are designed to provide the surgeon with the intuitive control, range of motion, fine tissue manipulation capability, and 3-D vision characteristic of open surgery. Systems work by simultaneously allowing the surgeon to work through the small ports of (Minimal Invasive Surgery) MIS. All this is accomplished in an intuitive manner, in the same way that the movements of a surgeon's hands in open surgery are entirely intuitive.

Furthermore, robots must be endowed with human-oriented interaction skills and capabilities, exhibit context and user-appropriate social behaviour, and focus attention and communication on the user in order to help the user achieve specific goals.
The report 'Healthcare Robots: Surgical Assist, Campus, Personal Services, and Pharmaceutical Robot Market Shares, Market Strategies, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014' is available from Report Buyer at: www.reportbuyer.com/pharma_healthcare/technology/healthcare_robo ..

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