February 15, 2022

Changing Roles in Medical Care: Haptic Surgical Robots

Training with haptic robots may reduce mistakes by allowing doctors to have more practice before they work on human beings. However, they do not provide training in interaction, patient care or familiarity with living and embodied subjects, though perhaps it is unclear how important this is in current medical training. Haptic robots are also more expensive for more highly sensitive technology, and this may or may not deliver on investment. This case allows students to consider how much virtual training will alter the experience of a surgical education and what the pros and cons of these new technologies may include