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As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States and Western Europe, and the ongoing War on Terror helped catapult it into a US $6 billion dollar industry across the globe. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures. In the United States alone, more than 2 million people live with limb loss, with 185,000 people receiving amputations every year. A much smaller subsetbetween 1,500 to 4,500 children each yearare born with limb differences or absences, myself included.

Today, the people who design prostheses tend to be well-intentioned engineers rather than amputees themselves. The fleshy stumps of the world act as repositories for these designers dreams of a high-tech, superhuman future. I know this because throughout my life I have been fitted with some of the most cutting-edge prosthetic devices on the market. After being born missing my left forearm, I was one of the first cohorts of infants in the United States to be fitted with a myoelectric prosthetic hand, an electronic device controlled by the wearers muscles tensing against sensors inside the prosthetic socket. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human handsometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.

In my lifetime, myoelectric hands have evolved from clawlike constructs to multigrip, programmable, anatomically accurate facsimiles of the human hand, most costing tens of thousands of dollars. Reporters cant get enough of these sophisticated, multigrasping bionic hands with lifelike silicone skins and organic movements, the unspoken promise being that disability will soon vanish and any lost limb or organ will be replaced with an equally capable replica. Prosthetic-hand innovation is treated like a high-stakes competition to see what is technologically possible. Tyler Hayes, CEO of the prosthetics startup Atom Limbs, put it this way in a WeFunder video that helped raise $7.2 million from investors: Every moonshot in history has started with a fair amount of crazy in it, from electricity to space travel, and Atom Limbs is no different.

We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race. But are we making real progress? Its time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. And as recent research concludes, much simpler and far less expensive prosthetic devices can perform many tasks equally well, and the fancy bionic hands, despite all of their electronic options, are rarely used for grasping.

Activity arms, such as this one manufactured by prosthetics firm Arm Dynamics, are less expensive and more durable than bionic prostheses. The attachment from prosthetic-device company Texas Assistive Devices rated for very heavy weights, allowing the author to perform exercises that would be risky or impossible with her much more expensive bebionic arm.Gabriela Hasbun; Makeup: Maria Nguyen for MAC cosmetics; Hair: Joan Laqui for Living Proof

In recent decades, the overwhelming focus of research into and development of new artificial hands has been on perfecting different types of grasps. Many of the most expensive hands on the market differentiate themselves by the number and variety of selectable prehensile grips. My own media darling of a hand, the bebionic from Ottobock, which I received in 2018, has a fist-shaped power grip, pinching grips, and one very specific mode with thumb on top of index finger for politely handing over a credit card. My 21st-century myoelectric hand seemed remarkableuntil I tried using it for some routine tasks, where it proved to be more cumbersome and time consuming than if I had simply left it on the couch. I couldnt use it to pull a door shut, for example, a task I can do with my stump. And without the extremely expensive addition of a powered wrist, I couldnt pour oatmeal from a pot into a bowl. Performing tasks the cool bionic way, even though it mimicked having two hands, wasnt obviously better than doing things my way, sometimes with the help of my legs and feet.

When I first spoke with Ad Spiers, lecturer in robotics and machine learning at Imperial College London, it was late at night in his office, but he was still animated about robotic handsthe current focus of his research. Spiers says the anthropomorphic robotic hand is inescapable, from the reality of todays prosthetics to the fantasy of sci-fi and anime. In one of my first lectures here, I showed clips of movies and cartoons and how cool filmmakers make robot hands look, Spiers says. In the anime Gundam, there are so many close-ups of gigantic robot hands grabbing things like massive guns. But why does it need to be a human hand? Why doesnt the robot just have a gun for a hand?

Its time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish.

Spiers believes that prosthetic developers are too caught up in form over function. But he has talked to enough of them to know they dont share his point of view: I get the feeling that people love the idea of humans being great, and that hands are what make humans quite unique. Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development. This is what the future looks like, he says, and he sounds a little exasperated. But there are often better ways.

The vast majority of people who use a prosthetic limb are unilateral amputeespeople with amputations that affect only one side of the bodyand they virtually always use their dominant fleshy hand for delicate tasks such as picking up a cup. Both unilateral and bilateral amputees also get help from their torsos, their feet, and other objects in their environment; rarely are tasks performed by a prosthesis alone. And yet, the common clinical evaluations to determine the success of a prosthetic are based on using only the prosthetic, without the help of other body parts. Such evaluations seem designed to demonstrate what the prosthetic hand can do rather than to determine how useful it actually is in the daily life of its user. Disabled people are still not the arbiters of prosthetic standards; we are still not at the heart of design.

The Hosmer Hook [left], originally designed in 1920, is the terminal device on a body-powered design that is still used today. A hammer attachment [right] may be more effective than a gripping attachment when hammering nails into wood.Left: John Prieto/The Denver Post/Getty Images; Right: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images

To find out how prosthetic users live with their devices, Spiers led a study that used cameras worn on participants heads to record the daily actions of eight people with unilateral amputations or congenital limb differences. The study, published last year in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, included several varieties of myoelectric hands as well as body-powered systems, which use movements of the shoulder, chest, and upper arm transferred through a cable to mechanically operate a gripper at the end of a prosthesis. The research was conducted while Spiers was a research scientist at Yale Universitys GRAB Lab, headed by Aaron Dollar. In addition to Dollar, he worked closely with grad student Jillian Cochran, who coauthored the study.

Watching raw footage from the study, I felt both sadness and camaraderie with the anonymous prosthesis users. The clips show the clumsiness, miscalculations, and accidental drops that are familiar to even very experienced prosthetic-hand users. Often, the prosthesis simply helps brace an object against the body to be handled by the other hand. Also apparent was how much time people spent preparing their myoelectric prostheses to carry out a taskit frequently took several extra seconds to manually or electronically rotate the wrists of their devices, line up the object to grab it just right, and work out the grip approach.The participant who hung a bottle of disinfectant spray on their hook hand while wiping down a kitchen counter seemed to be the one who had it all figured out.

In the study, prosthetic devices were used on average for only 19 percent of all recorded manipulations. In general, prostheses were employed in mostly nonprehensile actions, with the other, intact hand doing most of the grasping. The study highlighted big differences in usage between those with nonelectric, body-powered prosthetics and those with myoelectric prosthetics. For body-powered prosthetic users whose amputation was below the elbow, nearly 80 percent of prosthesis usage was nongrasping movementpushing, pressing, pulling, hanging, and stabilizing. For myoelectric users, the device was used for grasping just 40 percent of the time.

More tellingly, body-powered users with nonelectric grippers or split hooks spent significantly less time performing tasks than did users with more complex prosthetic devices. Spiers and his team noted the fluidity and speed with which the former went about doing tasks in their homes. They were able to use their artificial hands almost instantaneously and even experience direct haptic feedback through the cable that drives such systems. The research also revealed little difference in use between myoelectric single-grasp devices and fancier myoelectric multiarticulated, multigrasp handsexcept that users tended to avoid hanging objects from their multigrasp hands, seemingly out of fear of breaking them.

We got the feeling that people with multigrasp myoelectric hands were quite tentative about their use, says Spiers. Its no wonder, since most myoelectric hands are priced over $20,000, are rarely approved by insurance, require frequent professional support to change grip patterns and other settings, and have costly and protracted repair processes. As prosthetic technologies become more complex and proprietary, the long-term serviceability is an increasing concern. Ideally, the device should be easily fixable by the user. And yet some prosthetic startups are pitching a subscription model, in which users continue to pay for access to repairs and support.

Despite the conclusions of his study, Spiers says the vast majority of prosthetics R&D remains focused on refining the grasping modes of expensive, high-tech bionic hands. Even beyond prosthetics, he says, manipulation studies in nonhuman primate research and robotics are overwhelmingly concerned with grasping: Anything that isnt grasping is just thrown away.

TRS makes a wide variety of body-powered prosthetic attachments for different hobbies and sports. Each attachment is specialized for a particular task, and they can be easily swapped for a variety of activities. Fillauer TRS

If weve decided that what makes us human is our hands, and what makes the hand unique is its ability to grasp, then the only prosthetic blueprint we have is the one attached to most peoples wrists. Yet the pursuit of the ultimate five-digit grasp isnt necessarily the logical next step. In fact, history suggests that people havent always been fixated on perfectly re-creating the human hand.

As recounted in the 2001 essay collection Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ideas about the hand evolved over the centuries. The soul is like the hand; for the hand is the instrument of instruments, Aristotle wrote in De Anima. He reasoned that humanity was deliberately endowed with the agile and prehensile hand because only our uniquely intelligent brains could make use of itnot as a mere utensil but a tool for apprehensio, or grasping, the world, literally and figuratively.

More than 1,000 years later, Aristotles ideas resonated with artists and thinkers of the Renaissance. For Leonardo da Vinci, the hand was the brains mediator with the world, and he went to exceptional lengths in his dissections and illustrations of the human hand to understand its principal components. His meticulous studies of the tendons and muscles of the forearm and hand led him to conclude that although human ingenuity makes various inventionsit will never discover inventions more beautiful, more fitting or more direct than nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Da Vincis illustrations precipitated a wave of interest in human anatomy. Yet for all of the studious rendering of the human hand by European masters, the hand was regarded more as an inspiration than as an object to be replicated by mere mortals. In fact, it was widely accepted that the intricacies of the human hand evidenced divine design. No machine, declared the Christian philosopher William Paley, is more artificial, or more evidently so than the flexors of the hand, suggesting deliberate design by God.

Performing tasks the cool bionic way, even though it mimicked having two hands, wasnt obviously better than doing things my way, sometimes with the help of my legs and feet.

By the mid-1700s, with the Industrial Revolution in the global north, a more mechanistic view of the world began to emerge, and the line between living things and machines began to blur. In her 2003 article Eighteenth-Century Wetware, Jessica Riskin, professor of history at Stanford University, writes, The period between the 1730s and the 1790s was one of simulation, in which mechanicians tried earnestly to collapse the gap between animate and artificial machinery. This period saw significant changes in the design of prosthetic limbs. While mechanical prostheses of the 16th century were weighed down with iron and springs, a 1732 body-powered prosthesis used a pulley system to flex a hand made of lightweight copper. By the late 18th century, metal was being replaced with leather, parchment, and corksofter materials that mimicked the stuff of life.

The techno-optimism of the early 20th century brought about another change in prosthetic design, says Wolf Schweitzer, a forensic pathologist at the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine and an amputee. He owns a wide variety of contemporary prosthetic arms and has the necessary experience to test them. He notes that anatomically correct prosthetic hands have been carved and forged for the better part of 2,000 years. And yet, he says, the 20th centurys body-powered split hook is more modern, its design more willing to break the mold of the human hand.

The body powered armin terms of its symbolism(still) expresses the man-machine symbolism of an industrial society of the 1920s, writes Schweitzer in his prosthetic arm blog, when man was to function as clockwork cogwheel on production lines or in agriculture. In the original 1920s design of the Hosmer Hook, a loop inside the hook was placed just for tying shoes and another just for holding cigarettes. Those designs, Ad Spiers told me, were incredibly functional, function over form. All pieces served a specific purpose.

Schweitzer believes that as the need for manual labor decreased over the 20th century, prostheses that were high-functioning but not naturalistic were eclipsed by a new high-tech vision of the future: bionic hands. In 2006, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched Revolutionizing Prosthetics, a research initiative to develop the next generation of prosthetic arms with near-natural control. The $100 million program produced two multi-articulating prosthetic arms (one for research and another that costs over $50,000). More importantly, it influenced the creation of other similar prosthetics, establishing the bionic handas the military imagined itas the holy grail in prosthetics. Today, the multigrasp bionic hand is hegemonic, a symbol of cyborg wholeness.

And yet some prosthetic developers are pursuing a different vision. TRS, based in Boulder, Colo., is one of the few manufacturers of activity-specific prosthetic attachments, which are often more durable and more financially accessible than robotic prosthetics. These plastic and silicone attachments, which include a squishy mushroom-shaped device for push-ups, a ratcheting clamp for lifting heavy weights, and a concave fin for swimming, have helped me experience the greatest functionality I have ever gotten out of a prosthetic arm.

Such low-tech activity prostheses and body-powered prostheses perform astonishingly well, for a tiny fraction of the cost of bionic hands. They dont look or act like human hands, and they function all the better for it. According to Schweitzer, body-powered prostheses are regularly dismissed by engineers as arcane or derisively called Captain Hook. Future bionic shoulders and elbows may make a huge difference in the lives of people missing a limb up to their shoulder, assuming those devices can be made robust and affordable. But for Schweitzer and a large percentage of users dissatisfied with their myoelectric prosthesis, the prosthetic industry has yet to provide anything fundamentally better or cheaper than body-powered prostheses.

Bionic hands seek to make disabled people whole, to have us participate in a world that is culturally two-handed. But its more important that we get to live the lives we want, with access to the tools we need, than it is to make us look like everyone else. While many limb-different people have used bionic hands to interact with the world and express themselves, the centuries-long effort to perfect the bionic hand rarely centers on our lived experiences and what we want to do in our lives.

Weve been promised a breakthrough in prosthetic technology for the better part of 100 years now. Im reminded of the scientific excitement around lab-grown meat, which seems simultaneously like an explosive shift and a sign of intellectual capitulation, in which political and cultural change is passed over in favor of a technological fix. With the cast of characters in the world of prostheticsdoctors, insurance companies, engineers, prosthetists, and the militaryplaying the same roles they have for decades, its nearly impossible to produce something truly revolutionary.

In the meantime, this metaphorical race to the moon is a mission that has forgotten its original concern: helping disabled people acquire and use the tools they want. There are inexpensive, accessible, low-tech prosthetics that are available right now and that need investments in innovation to further bring down costs and improve functionality. And in the United States at least, there is a broken insurance system that needs fixing. Releasing ourselves from the bionic-hand arms race can open up the possibilities of more functional designs that are more useful and affordable, and might help us bring our prosthetic aspirations back down to earth.

This article appears in the October 2022 print issue.

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Ask Yegor Traiman about whether robots or humans are better at making food, and hell side with his fellow carbon-based lifeforms.

What might be super easy for humans is very difficult for robots, Traiman told The Spoon.

But this doesnt mean the CEO of food robotics startup Remy Robotics thinks humans should prepare all our food. In fact, he thinks robots should an integral part of the kitchen. The answer, Traiman explains, lies in creating a world in which the robots can succeed. In other words, we need to build kitchens around the robot rather than force-fitting a robot into human-centered kitchens.

To really reach mass market adoption and really solve the labor shortage, you need to put the robot at the center.

For Traiman, that means having culinary engineers build systems with the robots in mind from the start.

Its not about a fancy Michelin star chef, said Traiman. Its really about engineers from the culinary side which invent the new cooking methods, frameworks and techniques for the robots to make them as efficient as they can.

As for the robots, Traimain believes they need to highly flexible, a far cry from what he sees from most of todays food robotics startups.

Most of the food robot startups end up automating just a single process like flipping burgers, said Traiman. But can you gain mass market adoption with a single process automation?

According to Traiman, his company also started down that path and tried to automate high-volume processes like burger assembly and pizza cutting, but realized they needed to focus less on high-volume mechanical solutions and instead build systems with software-defined intelligence and flexibility.

We quickly realized, its a short time to market, but its not scalable. We immediately switched to more complicated deep tech based on AI, a true smart robotics application.

That flexibility allows Remy Robotics to cook a wide variety of food types, which is crucial to the bigger vision of the company. Today the company operates its own robot-powered dark kitchens in Barcelona and Paris and creates food under the companys own in-house virtual brands which is delivered through third party service providers like Deliveroo and UberEats. Longer term, however, Traiman sees his company as a B2B platform for any restaurant operator who wants to leverage automation in a scalable way to use Remy as a kitchen-as-a-service.

Even though there is hype, no one in this business has found a sustainable business model yet, said Traiman. Delivery service providers are struggling. Virtual restaurants are also kind of struggling. Without the help of disruptive technology, there is no way out and I really believe robotics can make it better, cheaper and more reliable.

You can see Remy Robotics and connect with Traimain at the Smart Kitchen Summit next week (get your ticket here). You can watch our full interview with Traiman below.

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New York, Oct. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Rehabilitation Robots Industry" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05959879/?utm_source=GNW

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Complimentary updates for one yearGlobal Rehabilitation Robots Market to Reach $2.2 Billion by 2027- In the changed post COVID-19 business landscape, the global market for Rehabilitation Robots estimated at US$566.5 Million in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$2.2 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 21.7% over the analysis period 2020-2027. Upper Extremity, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 19.4% CAGR and reach US$754.2 Million by the end of the analysis period. Taking into account the ongoing post pandemic recovery, growth in the Lower Extremity segment is readjusted to a revised 21.9% CAGR for the next 7-year period.- The U.S. Market is Estimated at $219.7 Million, While China is Forecast to Grow at 23.2% CAGR- The Rehabilitation Robots market in the U.S. is estimated at US$219.7 Million in the year 2020. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$331.1 Million by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 23.2% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 17.5% and 19.2% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 19.7% CAGR.Full-Body Exoskeletons Segment to Record 24.8% CAGR- In the global Full-Body Exoskeletons segment, USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 24.8% CAGR estimated for this segment. These regional markets accounting for a combined market size of US$94.7 Million in the year 2020 will reach a projected size of US$456.7 Million by the close of the analysis period. China will remain among the fastest growing in this cluster of regional markets.

Select Competitors (Total 100 Featured)Bionik Laboratories Corp.BioXtremeCorindus, Inc.CYBERDYNE Inc.Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc.Hocoma AGParker Hannifin Corp.Rehab-Robotics Company LimitedReWalk Robotics Ltd.Rex Bionics Ltd.Siemens AGTyromotion GmbH

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I. METHODOLOGY

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MARKET OVERVIEWRehabilitation Robots - Global Key Competitors PercentageMarket Share in 2022 (E)Competitive Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial forPlayers Worldwide in 2022 (E)Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and a Looming Global RecessionWeak Global Economic Environment & Negative Tide in GDPForecasts Discourage the MarketWorld Economic Growth Projections (Real GDP, Annual % Change)for 2019, 2020 & 2021Robotics Play an Increasingly Important Role in Medical SectorAn Introduction to Rehabilitation RobotsFunctional Roles of Rehabilitation RobotsRehabilitation Robotics: Historical BackgroundGlobal Market Prospects & OutlookRobotics Stride Ahead to Restore Mobility and SupplementPhysiotherapist Efforts in Stroke PatientsDeveloped Regions Lead Market, Developing Economies toSpearhead Future GrowthCompetitionWorld BrandsRecent Market Activity

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERSRising Prominence of Robotics Technology in PatientRehabilitation and TherapyAging Population with Age-related Conditions Drive Demand forRehabilitation RobotsGlobal Aging Population Statistics for the 65+ Age Group inMillion by Geographic Region for the Years 2019, 2025, 2035and 2050Elderly Population (65+ Years) as a % of Total Population byDeveloped, Less Developed and Least Developed Regions: 2019 &2030Life Expectancy at Birth in Years of People in Select Countriesfor 2020EIncreasing Incidence of Neurological & MusculoskeletalDisorders and Other Chronic Medical Conditions to PropelMarket GrowthGlobal Annual Medical Cost of CVD in US$ Billion: 2010, 2015,2020, 2025 and 2030Global Cancer Incidence: Number of New Cancer Cases in Millionfor the Years 2018, 2020, 2025, 2030, 2035 and 2040World Diabetes and Population Statistics (2019, 2030 & 2045)Rising Significance of Rehabilitation Robots for PhysicalTherapy of Stroke SurvivorsA Glance at Select Population Stroke Rehabilitation RobotsOsteoarthritis & Osteoporosis: Major Health ConditionsAffecting Mobility in the Elderly to Drive Market GrowthGlobal Osteoporosis Prevalence: Number of People withOsteoporosis in Millions by Select Country/Region for 2012 and2022P% of Women Affected by OsteoporosisRising Incidence of Physical Disabilities: A Grim RealityDriving Significance of Rehabilitation RobotsPercentage of Population with Disabilities by Age GroupSmarter Rehabilitation through Machine Learning and RoboticsEldercare-Assistive Robots: Enabling Elderly and Disabled toLive IndependentlyTherapeutic Rehabilitation Robots Market: Providing Assistanceto Patients with Motor DisordersExoskeleton Robots: Enabling Medical RehabilitationShortage of Home Care Workers and Rising Care Costs forDisabled and Elderly Turn Focus onto Rehabilitation RobotsAnnual Cost of Full-Time Home Health Aide (in $) in the US for2004-2019Long-term Care Workers in the US: Percentage Breakdown ofWorkforce by Type for 2020EShift towards Home Healthcare Augurs Well for the MarketRehabilitation Robots for Treatment of Post-CNS SensorimotorDeficits: A Neurophysiological PerspectiveTechnology Advancements in Rehabilitation Robots to BoostMarket ProspectsHandicap Assistance Robots: A Key OpportunityRehabilitation Robots and Virtual Reality to Enhance PhysicalTherapySelect Innovative Technologies and Devices in RoboticRehabilitationCurrent Areas of Research and DevicesConsistent Rise in Healthcare Spending Worldwide to SupportMarket GrowthWorld Healthcare Expenditure (In US$ Trillion) for the Yearsfor 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023Healthcare Expenditure as a % of GDP by Region for 2019Challenges Confronting Rehabilitation Robots Market

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVETable 1: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 2: World 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld Markets for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 3: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for UpperExtremity by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 4: World 7-Year Perspective for Upper Extremity byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 5: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for LowerExtremity by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 6: World 7-Year Perspective for Lower Extremity byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 7: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forFull-Body Exoskeletons by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 8: World 7-Year Perspective for Full-Body Exoskeletons byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 9: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forTherapeutic by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 10: World 7-Year Perspective for Therapeutic byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 11: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Centers by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 12: World 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Centersby Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 13: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forHospitals by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 14: World 7-Year Perspective for Hospitals by GeographicRegion - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World for Years2021 & 2027

Table 15: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forOther End-Uses by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan,China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 16: World 7-Year Perspective for Other End-Uses byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

III. MARKET ANALYSIS

UNITED STATESRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in the United States for 2022 (E)Table 17: USA Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 18: USA 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 19: USA Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 20: USA 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

CANADATable 21: Canada Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 22: Canada 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 23: Canada Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 24: Canada 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

JAPANRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Japan for 2022 (E)Table 25: Japan Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 26: Japan 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 27: Japan Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 28: Japan 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

CHINARehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in China for 2022 (E)Table 29: China Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 30: China 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 31: China Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 32: China 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

EUROPERehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Europe for 2022 (E)Table 33: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Geographic Region - France, Germany,Italy, UK and Rest of Europe Markets - Independent Analysis ofAnnual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 34: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forFrance, Germany, Italy, UK and Rest of Europe Markets for Years2021 & 2027

Table 35: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 36: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 37: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 38: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

FRANCERehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in France for 2022 (E)Table 39: France Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 40: France 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 41: France Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 42: France 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

GERMANYRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Germany for 2022 (E)Table 43: Germany Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 44: Germany 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 45: Germany Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 46: Germany 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

ITALYTable 47: Italy Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 48: Italy 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 49: Italy Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 50: Italy 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

UNITED KINGDOMRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in the United Kingdom for 2022 (E)Table 51: UK Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 52: UK 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 53: UK Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 54: UK 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

REST OF EUROPETable 55: Rest of Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 56: Rest of Europe 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 57: Rest of Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 58: Rest of Europe 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

ASIA-PACIFICRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Asia-Pacific for 2022 (E)Table 59: Asia-Pacific Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 60: Asia-Pacific 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 61: Asia-Pacific Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 62: Asia-Pacific 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

REST OF WORLDTable 63: Rest of World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 64: Rest of World 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 65: Rest of World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 66: Rest of World 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

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Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community werent learning about their own Indigenous culture and history.

Oftentimes, schools only teach about colonial settlers' encounters with Native Americans instead of focusing on their culture and history. So Boyer asked her mother to let her teach a class to kindergartners. As she grew older, the now 21-year-old began building robots that spoke Native languages and shared them with other indigenous youth.

Today, Boyer is the founder of The STEAM Connection, a nonprofit that has built and shared more than 8,000 wearable robots. Boyer says robots have the capability to teach a wide range of tech skills, from electrical engineering to team building. Theyre an all-encompassing tool that kind of gives us back a lot of power, Boyer says. And, they help prevent indigenous languages from dying out if they arent taught culturally.

But its not cheap, and learning about them is even less accessible. As a kid, Boyer joined a robotics team after developing an interest in robots. Despite the initial excitement to participate and the expensive cost to join Boyer was bullied the entire time. It was clear the other students didnt want her there, she says. She joined another team but faced the same kind of harassment.

I created my organization because every student deserves to have a safe space to learn and to be themselves, she says. And that's why I'm doing the work that I do now.

Half the size of a human head, the robots can sit on Boyers shoulder. They look like minions unintentional, Boyer says but students can customize them and include different elements from their culture such as ribbon skirts, hats, beads or earrings. Boyer decorated her robot with Ojibwe woodland flowers and other elements representing her community.

Boyer wants her students to have the skills they need to create things for the community, whether its robots or anything else, she says. One of Boyers students once said that she was the first Native person theyd seen in robotics and she inspired them to get into it.

That really made me emotional and inspired to see the power that us being ourselves has and being authentic to ourselves, to our community, Boyer says. I just think that's such a beautiful thing.

Ashley Locke produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Catherine Welch. Jeannette Muhammad adapted it for the web.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus Product and Application, Supply Chain Analysis, and Country Analysis - Analysis and Forecast, 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global agriculture autonomous robots market was valued at $3.92 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $10.50 billion in 2027, growing at a CAGR of 19.16% during the forecast period 2022-2027

The growth in the global agriculture autonomous robots market is expected to be driven by increasing demand for food and the growing need for precision, digital, and smart agriculture practices.

Market Lifecycle Stage

The agriculture autonomous robots market is still in an evolving phase. Increased research and development activities are underway to develop agriculture autonomous robotic technologies and products, which are expected to increase due to the increased demand for food and the need for automation in the agriculture sector.

Increasing investment in smart agriculture is one of the major opportunities in the global agriculture autonomous robots market. Moreover, agriculture autonomous robot technologies also help in reducing crop losses due to undetected pest infestation and diseases. The agriculture autonomous robots also facilitate the safe and quality harvesting and picking of crops including fruits and vegetables.

With an increased worldwide focus on achieving the global food demand, the shift to digital, smart, and data-driven products in the agriculture sectors brings significant sales and financing opportunities. The shift is more prominent in automation and robotics segments in regions such as North America and Europe.

Furthermore, agriculture autonomous robots have a moderate to high impact on crop protection systems to reduce crop losses due to crop diseases and pest infestations.

Impact of COVID-19

In the wake of the pandemic, labor shortages have caused disruptions in the agricultural processes, thereby leading every country to re-emphasize food security and increase domestic food production.

With an aim to solve labor shortages, the increased application of automated technologies such as sensors, data analytics, robotics, and others have been introduced into the production system. Each country continued to promote policies on increasing the adoption of agriculture autonomous robots techniques, which have proved to be the appropriate solution.

Market Segmentation

Dairy farm management is one of the major applications of agriculture autonomous robots owing to the high adoption of milking robots in Europe and North America.

The milking robots segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.34% during the forecast period 2022-2027 due to the rising use of automation in dairy farms. These robots increase the efficiency of farm operations by reducing the overall cost. Hence, farmers are inclining toward adopting milking robots and reducing dependence on manual labor.

North America generated the highest revenue of $1.33 billion in 2021, which is attributed to the R&D advancements and supporting government regulations in the region. Europe is an attractive region for the agriculture autonomous robots market because of the availability of the different market fragments.

Key Market Players and Competition Synopsis

The companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing company coverage, product portfolio, and market penetration.

The top segment players leading the market include crop monitoring and dairy farm management, which capture around 65% of the presence in the market. Players in other technologies, such as inventory management, and harvesting and picking, account for approximately 35% of the presence in the market, as of 2021.

Recent Developments in Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market

Some of the prominent names established in this market are:

Key Topics Covered:

1 Markets

1.1 Industry Outlook

1.1.1 Market Definition

1.1.2 Ecosystem/Ongoing Programs

1.1.2.1 Governments Initiatives

1.1.2.2 Consortiums and Associations

1.2 Business Dynamics

1.2.1 Business Drivers

1.2.1.1 Growing Focus on Environmental Sustainability

1.2.1.2 Aging Workforce Leading to Skill Shortage

1.2.1.3 Escalating Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies

1.2.2 Business Challenges

1.2.2.1 High Initial Investment and Cost

1.2.2.2 Less Adoption among Small-Scale Farmers

1.2.3 Market Strategies and Developments

1.2.3.1 Business Strategies

1.2.3.1.1 Product Development and Innovation

1.2.3.1.2 Business Expansions

1.2.3.2 Corporate Strategies

1.2.3.2.1 Mergers and Acquisitions

1.2.3.2.2 Partnerships, Collaborations, and Joint Ventures

1.2.3.2.3 Others

1.2.4 Business Opportunities

1.2.4.1 Growing Adoption of Smart Farming Techniques

1.2.4.2 Increasing Demand for Harvesting Automation

1.2.5 Impact of COVID-19 on Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market

1.3 Investment Landscape

1.3.1 Investment and Funding Landscape Share (by Company)

1.3.2 Investment and Funding Landscape Share (by Country)

2 Application

2.1 Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market (by Application)

2.1.1 Crop Monitoring

2.1.2 Dairy Farm Management

2.1.3 Inventory Management

2.1.4 Harvesting and Picking

2.1.5 Others

2.2 Demand Analysis of Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market, (by Application), $Million, 2021-2027

3 Products

3.1 Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market (by Product)

3.1.1 Crop Harvesting Robots

3.1.2 Weeding Robots

3.1.3 Milking Robots

3.1.4 Others

3.2 Demand Analysis of Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market, (by Product), $Million

3.3 Patent Analysis

3.3.1 Patent Analysis (by Status)

3.3.2 Patent Analysis (by Inventor Type)

3.3.3 Patents Analysis (by Patent Office)

3.3.4 Patent Analysis (by Application)

3.4 Supply Chain Analysis

4 Regions

5 Market-Competitive Benchmarking and Company Profiles

5.1 Market Share Analysis

5.1.1 Market Share Analysis of Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market Manufacturers

5.2 Competitive Benchmarking

5.3 Company Profiles

5.3.1 Company Overview

5.3.1.1 Role in the Global Agriculture Autonomous Robots Market

5.3.1.2 Product Portfolio

5.3.2 Business Strategies

5.3.2.1 Product Developments

5.3.3 Corporate Strategies

5.3.3.1 Partnerships, Joint Ventures, Collaborations, and Alliances

5.3.4 Analyst View

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Spine Navigation and Robotics: Exclusive Strategic Partnership

JUPITER, Fla. (PRWEB) October 10, 2022

Captiva Spine is a medical device organization located in Jupiter, Florida, dedicated to delivering smart, elegant, and intuitive spinal fusion solutions. They announced today its long-term exclusive strategic partnership with REMEX Medical, a developer of advanced navigation and robotics technologies located in Taichung, Taiwan; for spine navigation with future developments in practical robotic solutions.

Captiva Spine looks forward to serving the substantial need and demand for both navigation and surgical robots for spinal applications. For underserved hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) throughout the U.S., the technology will serve as a platform to expand the company's products and services with enhanced enabling technology to support MIS technology; specifically starting with their CapLOX Pedicle Screws, TowerLOX-EXT MIS Extended Tab Pedicle Screws, and TransFasten Posterior SI joint fusion system.

Nelson Lin, CEO of REMEX Medical, said, we are very pleased to enter the US marketplace with our new strategic partner, Captiva Spine. We share an enthusiasm and commitment to providing ongoing advancements for the betterment of spine care. REMEX has been researching and developing this platform for eight years with proven clinical performance.

The navigation system has 510(k) clearance from the FDA (U. S. Food and Drug Administration) and is available for commercial use. The navigation unit is a small on-site unit for more facilities looking to take advantage of the benefits of readily available, easy-to-use spine navigation. This model offers physicians, orthopedics, and neurosurgeons easy-to-use, cutting-edge technology to pre-plan and visualize their surgical approach. This platform utilizes preoperative CT scans and rapid intraoperative registration for accurate real-time 3D navigation with limited radiation exposure to staff and patients.

This platform for navigation helps fulfill our commitment to being a clinical and economical solution with advanced enabling technology for spine care, said Dale Mitchell, President of Captiva Spine. "We plan to have a technically advanced navigation platform to improve spine procedural efficiency and be economically feasible for the growing number of ASCs and specialty hospitals throughout the United States, Mitchell continued.

The spine navigation platform will be demonstrated at Captiva Spines booth (#3731) at the 2022 North American Spine Society (NASS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, October 12-14.

Spine Navigation allows surgeons to oversee the precise placement of MIS pedicle screws while situated directly at the operation site, guided by navigation technology. "Our goal is to provide a technology for reproducibility of screw accuracy and placement with higher confidence and safety in difficult areas is also a goal in mind, as well as improving screw insertion times, especially in cases of difficult anatomy," said Mitchell.

Captiva Spine is planning to expand the systems capabilities to include robotics. Both platforms are intended to improve the reproducibility and accuracy of applicable procedures to meet the growing demand for enabling solutions worldwide.

Inquiries from physicians and industry professionals looking to incorporate intelligent and innovative technologies into their offerings are always welcome. Captiva Spine can be contacted directly by phone at 561-277-9480.

Discover strength through connections at http://www.captivaspine.com.

About Captiva Spine, Inc.Captiva Spine is a privately owned medical device organization founded in 2007. Captiva Spine supports spine surgeons, tenured spine distributors, and healthcare facilities. In providing patients with progressive spinal care and an obsessive focus on quality, they strive to create and maintain sincere, honest, collaborative relationships. Valuing their relationships fosters the mutual trust and openness needed for Captiva Spine to be a conduit of high-quality, smart, elegant, and intuitive patient solutions. Captiva Spine operates as a family of industry professionals that take pride in delivering these solutions responsibly and ethically. While never losing sight of what they refer to as the Human Factor, they find joy in their daily lives and serve the needs of their customers with sincere, professional enthusiasm.

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Over the last few decades, India has made significant advancements in healthcare delivery. As a result, the sector, one of the largest by employment opportunities and revenue, has been growing briskly. With numerous comprehensive initiatives by the government and private institutions, healthcare has become an important cornerstone in Indias development plan, with a strong commitment to reducing the overall disease burden.

While these initiatives are gaining traction, India continues to face a severe challenge of rising non-communicable disease burden with the contribution of diseases such as cancer incidence increasing with time. In addition, access and affordability to cancer treatment is still an issue, especially for the lower income groups. Even when free cancer screening is available high-risk groups may not take it very well. Therefore, it is vital to better understand patient preferences, early treatment facilitators, social barriers, and enablers of cancer care in India, in addition to providing affordable and accessible healthcare.

We are aware that cancer has the ability to impact a persons life on a physical, emotional, and financial level in a manner that few other illnesses can. Unfortunately, due to late detection, inadequate and unbalanced access to multimodality, and low affordability, Indias high incidence problem is further exacerbated, leading to a heavy mortality load. If the unpleasant reality of a fast-rising incidence of cancer is not addressed effectively and immediately, it could become a serious issue for the country.

Early detection leads to better cancer care through surgical management

Emerging economies like India have a large number of cancer patients who could benefit from advanced and effective minimally invasive care. Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is one such minimally invasive surgical innovation catalysing a paradigm shift in the approach to minimally invasive surgical procedures owing to its clinical benefits and becoming one of the most sophisticated precision tools. RAS research has aimed to provide better patient outcomes and care team experience at the most optimal total cost to treatment.

The transition of cancer patients from primary and secondary care to oncology hospitals may be fraught with several logistical difficulties. At a psychological level, the patients and families also go through an emotional journey. In addition, the financial impact of cancer care is a serious issue for many patients who must fund their treatment.

Today, surgical devices companies that have been effectively investing in the ecosystem for over 2 decades are already transforming the way surgeries take place for both surgeons and patients. Furthermore, advanced technologies like the RAS system can also help address the healthcare burden, with the potential of faster patient recovery, lesser chances for infection and shorter hospital stay, allowing for optimised utilisation of critical resources such as operation theatres and hospital beds, along with the surgeons ability to perform more procedures.

Additionally, with the potential to standardise surgical procedures and usher in a new era of growth in minimally invasive care, the industry is witnessing a greater interest in adoption of the technology among surgeons across the country.

It has also been seen that the overall cost, including pre and post-operative care associated with RAS procedures, is lower than traditional open surgery with similar or better outcomes, resulting in a substantial improvement in value for the patients. [1]

Today, the global emphasis on the management of diseases is focused on patient centricity and better patient outcomes, with significant research being done in the field of medical technology and surgical technology over the last few decades. The financial growth in the surgical market over the years is also evidence of the acceptance of research that focuses on patient outcomes and centricity.

As we move forward, cancer care would include an integrated Ecosystem that surrounds and supports the care teams through training, incremental technological advancements, and building clinical evidence to help bridge the current clinical gaps in delivering critical care with potentially better patient outcomes.

Such support also helps broaden a surgeons understanding of clinical outcomes derived from advanced treatment modalities through peer-to-peer learning. Additionally, using AI and ML in surgery will drive greater efficiency, and value and potentially reduce surgical variability, helping unlock new experiences and opportunities for providers and patients.

This will be discussed at length during the upcoming FICCI HEAL Conference.

Views expressed above are the author's own.

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Recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics hold great promise for transforming several fields of medicine. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots have the potential to revolutionise healthcare by automating and improving a wide range of processes, from direct patient care to the mass production of medicines. A number of large tech companies are already banking on AI and robotics to enhance the healthcare industry. Google, for instance, is working with the healthcare delivery network to develop predictive models. Since numerous cutting-edge businesses are actively competing in this space, the application of AI and Robotics is destined to succeed and radically alter the healthcare industry.

When it comes to medical treatment, artificial intelligence is poised to be a game-changer.

Health care is intricate, and operations can be severe. We need to encourage the use of artificial intelligence because it can improve diagnosis, preventative care, and treatment. By doing a comprehensive analysis of the condition, including the most minute details, AI is able to anticipate the occurrence of tract infections. There are several areas where cutting-edge AI-based technology can be implemented, including chronic illness, cancer, risk assessment, and radiography. New technologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCI), allow doctors to understand a patients full neurological status. These gadgets can hear brainwaves and translate them into orders that can make a person move (like moving a robotic arm). Furthermore, radiology images enabled by artificial intelligence, such as those produced by MRI machines, CT scanners, and x-ray equipment, provide non-invasive vision into the human bodys intricate inner workings.

Technology at your fingertips: wearable health monitors to keep tabs on your well-being

Numerous anecdotes attest to the power of modern technology to prevent the loss of life in desperate situations. In recent times, an Indian dentist developed excruciating chest symptoms and, after doing an electrocardiogram with his smartwatch, discovered that he had 99% blockage in his arteries. Many lives could be saved if affordable healthcare solutions based on technology will soon replace the current system. These devices include built-in Bluetooth, making them simple to set up and use.

Some of the functions of fitness trackers and smart health watches, such as the ability to record and display a wearers heart rate and rhythm, are extremely useful but largely underappreciated. A distress signal is sent out immediately if the heart rate suddenly increases or decreases significantly. The API for movement disorder is another essential element of smart wearables. It is effective in the treatment of Parkinsons disease. Without the need for a doctors supervision, self-diagnosis is now feasible thanks to the proliferation of diagnostic tools for use with portable diagnostic kits and sophisticated mobile phone applications.

Medical education and awareness campaigning in remote areas through the use of advanced technological healthcare facilities

Using telemedicine to connect urban and rural patients is a crucial step in closing the gap in healthcare access. Telemedicine, as defined by the World Health Organization, is the delivery of medical treatment over long distances to locations with little or no physical access to medical institutions. In addition, the definition specifies how all healthcare providers in these outlying areas must apply information and technology to disseminate knowledge about disease and injury diagnosis and treatment as well as the training of future medical professionals.

Key Takeaways

Successful healthcare organisations will be those who can employ robotics, machine learning and AI to radically redesign their processes and workflows to create an intelligent health system. The encouraging news is that the vast majority of healthcare giants are starting to implement AI. However, we have just begun the long process of discovering how artificial intelligence may enhance medical care. Therefore, it will take time, but the outcome will be highly effective. More importantly, we can also close the healthcare gap between urban and rural areas by implementing cutting-edge technologies such as robotics, AI, smart wearables, etc.

The most exciting prospect for artificial intelligence in healthcare is the potential to revolutionise clinical procedures. Clinicians only need to realise the potential of this new technology and accept the reality of global shifts to be able to react to future trends and the incorporation of AI into the healthcare system. There are two main ways in which AI might be useful: automation of processes and enhancement of human capabilities. There will be a significant increase in the efficiency with which many mundane chores are completed, and the quality of care provided to patients can be enhanced by using AI to assist medical personnel in their work.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Warehouse Robotics Market - Size, Share, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2022 - 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Warehouse robotics are also known as the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which can move from one place to other place within the warehouse. They generally follow a magnetic stripe or the track on the floor of the warehouse. They even have additional security scanners that permit them to be employed with the manual automotive.

They are embedded with the insertion of the warehouse locations and the inventory inside them. They are helpful as they save the timespan which people can utilize at some other place.

Market Dynamics:

The approval of the advanced AMRs is anticipated to boost the growth of the global warehouse robotics market. Moreover, Omron advanced the HD and LD sequence of AMRs for huge and delicate to medium loads. Furthermore, in 2020 Danish producer VOLA fixed a fleet of nine Omron LD-90 AMRs to produce a totally coordinated method for the autonomous substances conveyance in the industry. The deployment enhanced the whole output, flexibility, manufacture and working methods.

The quick improvement in automation technology announces novel variation in the goods leading present technologies to become rapid and the requirement to change or enhance daily requires huge expenditure which leads to the hampering of the global warehouse robotics market. Goods -to-person or robot-to-goods AMRs usually require more than three robot per picker, which is projected to hamper the growth of the global warehouse robotics market.

UAV flash control software, has created a new technological advancement that permits the staff workers and the drones to co-exist. It utilizes the developed and new perspectives Navigation Method to permit a DJI drone, to fly in an indoor environment or the surrounding. It is 50% quick than manual inspection and it ignores putting the human beings in harmful or difficult way.

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As the robotics industry develops, robots are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of navigating and operating entirely independently in a number of environments. Now, researchers have created a robot that can grow and extend itself, much like a vine or any other reaching plant.

Typically, synthetic growth designs for soft robots use a similar process to a 3D printer. Material is pushed and shaped through an opening, creating a structure in the robots wake. However, this process uses solid materials which become cumbersome and tricky for the robot to pull around corners and require heat to transform the material into a solid structure.

By contrast, the novel design, developed by a team of scientists and engineers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, used a technique called photopolymerization, which uses light to change liquid monomers into a solid mass, meaning the robots dont have to drag solid materials behind it and can create a more flexible path.

We were really inspired by how plants and fungi grow, said Matthew Hausladen, first author of the study. We took the idea that plants and fungi add material at the end of their bodies, either at their root tips or at their new shoots, and we translated that to an engineering system.

This novel design would allow these soft robots to navigate complex, hazardous terrains and typically inaccessible areas, useful for applications such as search and rescue missions, installing subterraneous infrastructure or even navigating through the human body for biomedical purposes.

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