TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical & Healthcare Robotics
T2 - A Roadmap for Enhanced Precision, Safety, and Efficacy
AU - Iakovidis, Dimitris
AU - Vartholomeos, Panagiotis
AU - Le Gall, Alexia
AU - Cianchetti, Matteo
AU - Ozioko, Oliver
AU - Dahiya, Ravinder
AU - Mazomenos, Evangelos
AU - Vasconcelos, Francisco
AU - Stoyanov, Danail
AU - Philpott, Joe
AU - Erdem, Taha
AU - Cummins, Gerard
AU - Ciuti, Gastone
AU - Seneci, Carlo
AU - Bergeles, Christos
AU - Kim, Minsoo
AU - Pane, Salvador
AU - Nelson, Bradley J.
AU - Poulakakis, Ioannis
AU - Simatos, Odysseas
AU - Polygerinos, Panagiotis
AU - Toupas, Petros
AU - Giakoumis, Dimitrios
AU - Tzovaras, Dimitrios
AU - Su, Zhidong
AU - Sheng, Weihua
AU - Panayides, Andreas S.
AU - Christoforou, Eftychios G.
AU - Pattichis, Constantinos S.
PY - 2025/9/22
Y1 - 2025/9/22
N2 - Medical robotics holds transformative potential for healthcare. Robots excel in tasks requiring precision, including surgery and minimally invasive interventions, and they can enhance diagnostics through improved automated imaging techniques. Despite the application potentials, the adoption of robotics still faces obstacles, such as high costs, technological limitations, regulatory issues, and concerns about patient safety and data security. This roadmap, authored by an international team of experts, critically assesses the state of medical robotics, highlighting existing challenges and emphasizing the need for novel research contributions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes. It explores advancements in machine learning, highlighting the importance of trustworthiness and interpretability in robotics, the development of soft robotics for surgical and rehabilitation applications, and the role of image-guided robotic systems in diagnostics and therapy. Mini, micro, and nano robotics for surgical interventions, as well as rehabilitation and assistive robots, are also discussed. Furthermore, the roadmap addresses service robots in healthcare, covering navigation, logistics, and telemedicine. For each of the topics addressed, current challenges and future directions to improve patient care through medical robotics are suggested.
AB - Medical robotics holds transformative potential for healthcare. Robots excel in tasks requiring precision, including surgery and minimally invasive interventions, and they can enhance diagnostics through improved automated imaging techniques. Despite the application potentials, the adoption of robotics still faces obstacles, such as high costs, technological limitations, regulatory issues, and concerns about patient safety and data security. This roadmap, authored by an international team of experts, critically assesses the state of medical robotics, highlighting existing challenges and emphasizing the need for novel research contributions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes. It explores advancements in machine learning, highlighting the importance of trustworthiness and interpretability in robotics, the development of soft robotics for surgical and rehabilitation applications, and the role of image-guided robotic systems in diagnostics and therapy. Mini, micro, and nano robotics for surgical interventions, as well as rehabilitation and assistive robots, are also discussed. Furthermore, the roadmap addresses service robots in healthcare, covering navigation, logistics, and telemedicine. For each of the topics addressed, current challenges and future directions to improve patient care through medical robotics are suggested.
U2 - 10.1088/1361-6501/ae09bf
DO - 10.1088/1361-6501/ae09bf
M3 - Review article
SN - 0957-0233
JO - Measurement Science and Technology
JF - Measurement Science and Technology
ER -