Are Robotics & Virtual Reality In The Future Of Your Treatment Team?

You can't have a discussion about technology in health and human services without looking at robots and virtual reality. A new study by ABI Research, Healthcare and Medical Robots, foresees the global market for medical robotics growing from just under $790 million in 2011 to nearly $1.3 billion in 2016. While the use of robots falls into many categories in the health and human service field — from assisting with recovery and rehabilitation, to enabling communication — it is the last category that is driving a lot of investment in robotics, not only in the U.S., but in Japan . . .