ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2021
Guidance for Acupuncture Robot with Potentially Utilizing Medical Robotic Technologies.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Research on acupuncture robots based on the OptiTrack motion capture system and a robotic arm.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Article
- Traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine and artificial intelligence: Novel opportunities in healthcare.Integrative medicine research · 2024Article
- Global trends and hotspots in research on acupuncture for stroke: a bibliometric and visualization analysis.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Artificial intelligence-directed acupuncture: a review.Chinese medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
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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