# Healthcare Robotics

## TL;DR

Healthcare robotics has the potential to significantly improve patient care and support healthcare providers, but requires strong evidence and collaboration to overcome adoption barriers.

## Contribution

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of healthcare robotics, identifying key stakeholders, care settings, tasks, and outlining challenges and opportunities for adoption.

## Key findings

- Reviewed recent advances in healthcare robotics
- Identified key stakeholders and care settings
- Outlined major challenges and opportunities

## Abstract

Robots have the potential to be a game changer in healthcare: improving health and well-being, filling care gaps, supporting care givers, and aiding health care workers. However, before robots are able to be widely deployed, it is crucial that both the research and industrial communities work together to establish a strong evidence-base for healthcare robotics, and surmount likely adoption barriers. This article presents a broad contextualization of robots in healthcare by identifying key stakeholders, care settings, and tasks; reviewing recent advances in healthcare robotics; and outlining major challenges and opportunities to their adoption.