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Opportunities and Challenges in Medical Robotic Device Development

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This chapter focuses on emerging opportunities and related challenges associated with medical device development. In a rapidly changing healthcare environment and related support structure, it has become essential to develop products and technologies that are not only innovative and affordable, but at the same time, safe and reliable for long-term performance stability. With the advancement of efficient computational platforms and artificial intelligence, newer opportunities in the form of software-driven medical devices and robotic minimally invasive surgical systems have emerged as key thrust areas in medical device manufacturing sector. A lot of research outcomes are being reported worldwide for development of haptic feedback-based robotic manipulators for complex surgical procedures. Leading industry manufacturers are focusing on transdisciplinary synergetic research for faster product development and subsequent market deployment. However, such medical cyber-physical systems have also brought out the need for ensuring product safety and data security for uncompromised privacy and process integrity. There are other challenges related to validation, certification and regulations of healthcare-related mobile applications and software-driven diagnostic and therapeutic tools which need to be handled with highest priority for patient safety. The chapter focuses on the AI-powered and software-driven medical devices as well as various technologies of robotic surgery and the associated research opportunities and challenges in these domains.

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  1. Department of Optical Devices and Systems, CSIR-CSIO, Sector 30 C, Chandigarh, 160030, India

    Neha Khatri & Mukesh Kumar

  2. Department of Biomedical Instrumentation, CSIR-CSIO, Sector 30 C, Chandigarh, 160030, India

    Ranjan Jha

  3. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India

    Neha Khatri, Mukesh Kumar & Ranjan Jha

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Khatri, N., Kumar, M., Jha, R. (2022). Opportunities and Challenges in Medical Robotic Device Development. In: Joshi, S.N., Chandra, P. (eds) Advanced Micro- and Nano-manufacturing Technologies. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3645-5_13

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