Autonomous Medical Devices

AMD's & Autonomous Surgical Robots

Autonomous Surgical Robots & other Autonomous Medical Devices (AMD's) are on the KPMG 2030 Medical Devices Roadmap and are expected to be implemented by 2025, specifically optic & orthopedic surgery applications. These surgeries can be modeled as elementary, repetitive tasks that require high precision with very few unexpected parameters. This is the ideal scenario for using AMD's.

So far autonomous medical devices have been utilized as monitoring and aid applications for the human surgeon, but are currently expanding into more complex and critical surgical applications. This is where both safety and performance are critical.

Surgical robots are not subject to fatigue, or momentary loss of attention, which makes such robots, when precise and safe enough, to be the better alternative due to higher success rates. This will lead to utilization of such autonomous medical devices not only by developing or remote areas, or in time-critical conditions, but also in main population applications for various surgical procedures.