Robot-Based Medicine. Robots in Medicine: Mobile Robots Versus Mobile Decision, Necessity Versus Possibility and Future Challenges

Medicine as a process and practice, i.e., the medical technology of the future, will be based on robotics. Our cooperation with robots, both as service providers and recipients of medical services, will require appropriate behaviour and education from us, including modification of applicable laws and ethics, also. Engineers are facing challenges to make robots cheaper, easier to use and safe. The robot allows us to multiply the work. Telecommunications robots and technology allow us to transfer our competences and possibilities of action to where they are most important at the moment–despite the distance from the patient. So we can contrast with robot mobility–information mobility. Do we already have Robot-Based Medicine today? And do we have any other solution to the problems of humanity and the health service? This chapter reviews issues related to the use of robots in medicine; from technical to ethical. The significant use of robotic mobility in medicine was pointed out. Mobility of robots has different meanings in various fields of medicine and different methods of successfully using robots there are being developed. Robots were created on Earth, by man, in the image of man and for man. This is the next stage in the history of tools and … human evolution.