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KUKA at MEDICA 2023: With robot-based applications against the shortage of skilled workers
There is a shortage of skilled workers and even talk of a nursing crisis. The lack of staff in the health sector can have a dramatic effect on patient care. But robot-based applications can help. KUKA will be presenting innovations in medical technology at MEDICA 2023 from 13 to 16 November. At our booth A22 in hall 10, we will take you on a journey through the present and future of healthcare.
"Where healthcare is going" is the MEDICA motto – together with our customers from the medical technology sector, we are setting out on the road to the future. At the world's largest medical technology trade fair, MEDICA, KUKA is presenting a wide variety of application examples of the seven-axis lightweight robot LBR Med. These examples show how medical staff can be relieved, thus enabling better care for patients.
Medical Robotics: Discover the possibilities
Watch the video to see how KUKA partners are using robot-based applications in the healthcare sector.
NDI demo for biopsies with new features
A demo shows how a system based on the LBR Med can contribute to a gentle and safer biopsy of a brain tumour. The biopsy is simulated on a model with real-time tracking based on the camera from the company NDI. The biopsy needle can be placed with the help of the LBR Med, which is mounted on a special medical equipment cart from MPE Inc. Part of the system is dynamic tracking. It enables the biopsy needle of the integrated robot to move precisely along with the model when it is moved. The "Increased Stiffness" feature, which raises the robot's stiffness, will be presented for the first time at MEDICA.
KUKA will present the NDI demo for biopsies with a new feature at MEDICA 2023.
Haptic telemanipulation
The demo illustrates the advantages of haptic telemanipulation using ultrasound as an example. Thanks to powerful software, remote control is possible, which can significantly relieve therapists in the practice or clinic. When operating the system, the user receives haptic feedback and feels when the transducer – guided by the sensitive robot – comes into contact with the patient's skin. In addition, workspace boundaries and singularities of the robot are taken into account throughout to prevent interference.
The demo illustrates the advantages of haptic telemanipulation using ultrasound as an example.
Hands on experience of the LBR Med
Because experience is more important than mere observation, the LBR Med Medical Robotics Feature Demo awaits you at the KUKA booth. You can try out various modes and scenarios for yourself. Hand-guiding, teaching by demonstration, force control during a trajectory, hand-guiding under defined restrictions, e.g. in a plane or a trajectory – test the possibilities, for example for robot-assisted spinal operations.
In the Medical Robotics Feature Demo you can try yourself.
Discover the LBR Med and its applications
The LBR Med was the first robot worldwide to be certified for integration into medical products. Due to its sensitive sensor technology, the comprehensive safety packages, the hygiene-optimised surface and the certification according to the internationally recognised IECEE CB Scheme, medical device manufacturers rely on the LBR Med. At MEDICA, you will get to know some of our customers and their products.
Get to know KUKA partners: Life Science Robotics
The rehabilitation robot ROBERT® has been successfully mobilizing the lower extremities of bedridden patients for a long time. MEDICA visitors can now see it treating the upper extremities. Intelligently controlled, active arm therapy with ROBERT® uses sensor technology to determine each patient's muscle tone and increase or decrease support as needed.
Flux Robotics: Towards gentler catheter procedures
The Flux One system from KUKA partner Flux Robotics combines the LBR Med with actively controllable electromagnets. In the future, Flux One will use the magnetic field to control catheters on their way through the vascular system from the outside. This will make catheter procedures faster to implement and less risky for patients.
The Italian company Robota is responding to the shortage of skilled workers in the dental field with an innovative automation solution: TheKR AGILUSsterilises dental tools in a compact cell. These are also individually packaged automatically so that they are ready for the next use. In this way, the staff can tend more intensively to the treatment of the patients.
The new KR QUANTEC HC will also be presented at MEDICA 2023. The robot supports a payload of up to 300 kg and can handle heavy medical equipment, such as a linear accelerator used in tumour therapies or an X-ray system in angiography. The KR QUANTEC HC has numerous new features such as additional brakes and a person recovery system.
