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Fig. 6 Data on da Vinci robots by country from Scopus in February 2020. Query: TITLE-
ABS-KEY (Da AND Vinci AND robot).

Medical Robotics

Robotics to assist patients Robotics to assist
with health difficulties doctors/surgeons

Robotics for
Surgery,
Assistive Rehabilitation
Technologies Robotics Exploration,
Diagnosis and
Therapy
Fig. 7 Classification-based applications of medical robotics. Adapted from Dombre, E.,
2003. Introduction to Medical Robotics, Summer European University on Surgical
Robotics, Montpellier, https://www.lirmm.fr/UEE07/presentations/lecturers/Dombre.pdf.

classified according to their applications into two main groups (Dombre,
2003): robotics to assist doctors/surgeons and robotics to assist patients with
health difficulties. The first class includes robotics for surgery, exploration,
diagnosis, and therapy. The second class incorporates on one hand all
assistive-technologies including robots that improve the quality of life of dis-
abled and elderly people by increasing personal independence, and on the