Medical and health-care robotics: Achievements and Opportunities
From: SMARTech
By: Allison M. Okamura, Maja J. Mataric, and Henrik I Christensen

The aim of this article is to propose some of the most important capabilities
and technical achievements of medical and health-care robotics needed to
improve human health and well-being. The paper describes application areas,
societal drivers, motivating scenarios, desired system capabilities, and
fundamental research areas that should be considered in the design of medical
and health-care robots. 

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05569021
http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/37375/05569021.pdf?sequence=1
http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Haptics/HapticsLiterature/CCC-medical-healthcare-v7.pdf (no figures or artwork)
http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/publications/ras2010.pdf

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