Healthcare systems around the world are under increasing strain. Ageing populations, rising patient numbers, and chronic staff shortages mean hospitals and care homes are looking for ways to deliver more care with fewer resources.
Against this backdrop, robots are emerging as valuable assistants – not to replace doctors and nurses, but to take on physically demanding, repetitive, or high-risk tasks.
This article is not about surgical robots – the machines that perform operations in operating theatres. Those are a different category and will be covered separately. [Read more…] about Healthcare support robots: Assisting patients and medical staff