• Question: How do robotic arms affect people day to day life?

    Asked by anon-220830 on 20 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Matthew Bareford

      Matthew Bareford answered on 20 Jun 2019:

      Robotic Arms for those who have had replacements affect day to day life hugely. It allows them to do so much more that you wouldn’t even think important. They can be so much more independent and free.

      The average person is affected too, Cars, trains, planes are all built using robotic arms, we use these all the time in our everyday lives. Some medicines are even made using them in pharmaceutical lab processes.

    • Photo: Shobhana Nagraj

      Shobhana Nagraj answered on 20 Jun 2019:

      In addition to all the uses that Matthew has outlined, we also use robotic arms to perform surgery (Robotic surgery). You can read about them here: https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsann.supp2.4

    • Photo: Kaitlin Wade

      Kaitlin Wade answered on 20 Jun 2019:

      Nice answer, Matthew! I only thought about an individual who would have a robotic arm and would be helped immensely.

    • Photo: Nina Rzechorzek

      Nina Rzechorzek answered on 21 Jun 2019:

      Some cancerous prostate glands are now also removed surgically using the incredible Da Vinci robot! Take a look here:
      https://www.davincisurgery.com/da-vinci-systems/about-da-vinci-systems
      Some labs with lots of money also use robots to look after their cells or to test lots of drugs on different cell types – expensive but very important to speed up the process of drug development!

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