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Medical robots are a cross-disciplinary endeavor to facilitate disease diagnosis, surgery, radiation therapy, rehabilitation, and telepresence diagnosis. This report uses patent mining techniques, comprising of text and data mining, to provide an overview of medical robot technologies, as well as an analysis of major vendors' patent deployment, including Intuitive Surgical, Siemens, Honda, and so on. Also included are the outlook for the worldwide medical robot market and opportunities for perspective entrants.
List of Topics
- Overview of the major categories of medical robots
- Major technology fields and sectors identified through the data mining technique; also included are top 30 assignees and their patent deployment
- Analysis of major vendors' patent deployment strategies, and a brief outlook for the worldwide medical robot application market value in 2017
Companies covered
3M, Accuray, Baxter Corporation, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, Bonutti Skeletal Innovations, Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Curexo Technology Corporation, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Fanuc, Ltd., Given Imaging, Hansen Medical, Inc., HealthSouth, Honda, IBM, IFR, Intuitive Surgical, Johns Hopkins University, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Kuka, Mazor Robotics Ltd., Medtronic, Inc., NASA, National Institutes of Health, Orametrix, Inc., Philips Electronics, Restoration Robotics, Inc., Siemens, SRI International, Inc., St. Jude Medical, Inc., Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc., Symbiosis Corporation, Toyota, Virtual Incision Corporation