Sino-Austrian High-Tech Acupuncture Network: Annual Report 2017

Litscher, Gerhard

doi:10.3390/medicines5010005

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“…It is natural to resort to robots to perform acupuncture work for their precision and endurance. According to the published research, the earliest idea about acupuncture robot was mentioned as high-tech acupuncture by Gerhard Litscher of Medical University of Graz in1997 [ 1 ]. More than twenty years ago, when the research team at the Medical University of Graz, in 1997, showed that acupuncture also works in the electronics laboratory without the aid of an acupuncturist and when they introduced the term computer-controlled acupuncture [ 2 ], they did not use the term meaning that the computer replaces the acupuncturist; they rather understood the quantification of measurable effects of acupuncture [ 3 ].…”

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Guidance for Acupuncture Robot with Potentially Utilizing Medical Robotic Technologies

Xia

2021

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Acupuncture is gaining increasing attention and recognition all over the world. However, a lot of physical labor is paid by acupuncturists. It is natural to resort to a robot which can improve the accuracy as well as the efficacy of therapy. Several teams have separately developed real acupuncture robots or related technologies and even went to the stage of clinical trial and then achieved success commercially. A completed clinical practical acupuncture robot is not far from reach with the combination of existing mature medical robotic technologies. A hand-eye-brain coordination framework is proposed in this review to integrate the potential utilizing technologies including force feedback, binocular vision, and automatic prescription. We should take acupuncture prescription with artificial intelligence and future development trends into account and make a feasible choice in development of modern acupuncture.

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confidence: 99%