Industry Monitor Humanoid Industrial & Cobot AGV / AMR Quadruped Reducers · Servos · Sensors Drones & Autonomy Embodied AI
Robos News
DOWN Applications

Healthcare 医疗健康

From the operating room to rehab wards — robotics in clinical practice.

Applications 2 tracked companies 6 related stories

In healthcare, robots act in the highest-stakes settings: assisting surgery, automating labs and pharmacies, delivering supplies through hospitals, and supporting rehabilitation and elder care. Adoption is gated by regulation, evidence and reimbursement, which makes it deliberate but durable.

Ageing populations and clinical-labour shortages are widening the opportunity well beyond the operating room, into the everyday logistics and assistive tasks of care — a slower market to enter but a structurally growing one.

What to watch

  • Ageing populations expanding assistive robotics
  • Hospital logistics and pharmacy automation
  • Regulation and reimbursement pacing adoption

Key Players

Representative companies operating in this part of the value chain.

🇺🇸
Intuitive Surgical 直觉外科 Sunnyvale · US · est. 1995
Medical

The da Vinci surgical-robotics pioneer.

Visit website →
🇨🇳
MicroPort MedBot 微创机器人 Shanghai · CN · est. 2014
Medical

Toumai surgical robotics and clinical systems.

Visit website →

Explore the Applications

Related Coverage

All news →
Robotics
Robot Talk Episode 163 – Robots helping people, with Aaron Edsinger
Robotics
TRACE: Interactive Bi-Directional Tracing of Monochrome Cables Amid Clutter
Robotics
What’s coming up at #IROS2026?
Robotics
Design and Modeling of a Single-Port Three-Arm Robotic Tool for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Robotics
DUGM-R: Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Grid Mapping and Risk-Triggered Recovery for Learned Local Navigation
Robotics
Surgical Kinematics from Monocular Video with Learned Articulated Motion Constraints