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Medical Robotics

Medibotics is currently an informational site concerning advances in the application of robotic technology to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Robotic surgical systems have now been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States to help surgeons in selected aspects of surgical procedures such as cutting, suturing, and holding tissue. Surgeons operate the robotic systems through a console, from which their motions are translated into motion of robotic arms inserted into the patient through small incisions. Robots will generally additionally be used in the domain of telemedicine - the practice of medicine wherein the patient and doctor are in separate locations but connected through telecommunications. For example, once a surgeon becomes trained on manipulating a robotic arm from a robotic console a couple feet away from the patient, it initiates up the possibility of manipulating the arm from hundreds of miles away. Nanoscale medibots ("nanomedibots") are still under discovery, but will potentially be able to: monitor and adjust living processes; remove abnormal patterns such as arterial plaque; repair tissue or defective DNA at the atomic stage; take over body parts; and improve human health and functioning. Although medibots have not been discovered, there are ongoing advances in nanofluidics and carbon nanotube flow sensors that may become their building blocks. "Medibotics" is the commercialization of robotic invention to support physicians in the diagnosis and curing of healing diseases and conditions. The sector of medibotics could be divided into: larger scale medibot systems (generally consisting of a solitary medibot unit or system that is external to the body) such as those at the present time used to serve in surgical procedures; and (2) nano size medibots (generally consisting of multiple units operating in a synchronous manner within the body). Click images for more information on biotech/neurotech T-shirts: Questions and suggestions concerning the site Medibotics.com may be sent to: Medibotics.com © 2006 by Medibotics.com