Robots Can Improve Your Health

When most peo­ple think about robots they envi­sion robots from the movies or assem­bling cars, not many con­sid­er those involved with our lives. Robot­ics have helped advance tech­nol­o­gy in indus­tri­al fields since they were invent­ed, but they are now tak­ing on new fields includ­ing health care. That is right, not only can they improve man­u­fac­tur­ing, robots improve life. Whether you real­ize it or not there are robots in our lives every day. 

You may be won­der­ing how can robots improve our lives, besides mak­ing it eas­i­er to con­tact some­one via email or get us from one place to anoth­er. Well, life is improved by robots start­ing with their involve­ment in lab research, med­ica­tion, surg­eries, and med­ical equipment.

Robots in Lab Research

The use of robot­ics has become increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar because they are so pre­cise and time­ly, two key fea­tures when work­ing in a lab. Med­ical lab research depends on results with high accu­ra­cy and repeata­bil­i­ty along with a clean envi­ron­ment. Robots help bring these fea­tures as they elim­i­nate the risk of human error through con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and dropped samples. 

Many robots includ­ing those man­u­fac­tured by Motoman are used for mate­r­i­al han­dling appli­ca­tions in labs such as manip­u­lat­ing, stor­ing, and retriev­ing micro titer plates. 

Robots are also used in diag­nos­tic spec­i­men pro­cess­ing to sort, cap test tubes, and han­dle liq­uids since there is less risk of inter­fer­ence than with humans. 

Robots also play a major in the man­age­ment of research data. They are capa­ble of keep­ing track of thou­sands of com­pounds along with the patient infor­ma­tion asso­ci­at­ed with those com­pounds. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant for labs run­ning tests for spe­cif­ic patients.

Med­ica­tion

Anoth­er impor­tant aspect of robots improv­ing life per­tains to phar­ma­cies. The new trend among phar­ma­cies is to use robots, such as those from the Fanuc Spi­der Series car­ried by Robots​.com, for auto­mat­ed pill dis­pens­ing. This is becom­ing pop­u­lar due to the short­age of phar­ma­cists and because it improves pre­scrip­tion secu­ri­ty while decreas­ing human errors such as mis­cal­cu­la­tions. Errors with pre­scrip­tions could even be dead­ly, but with the high accu­ra­cy of robot­ics these risks are elim­i­nat­ed fur­ther show­ing how robots improve life.

Surg­eries and Med­ical Devices

Robots improv­ing life also per­tains to surg­eries such as heart, prostate, and gall blad­der. Robots offer steadi­ness with high accu­ra­cy along with a greater reach and range of motion than humans. These qual­i­ties make them the per­fect can­di­dates for intri­cate oper­a­tions. Robots are also being used in hip and knee replace­ment surg­eries as well as assem­bling med­ical equip­ment such as pace­mak­ers. Robots​.com also car­ries robots used in the man­u­fac­ture of med­ical devices.

If you are inter­est­ed in buy­ing a robot, sim­i­lar to the ones men­tioned in this arti­cle, please con­tact Robots​.com at 877−762−6881.