Medical robotics at UPC

Medical robotics is gaining an increasing interest both in the rehabilitati on held, assistant robots, and in surgery. This article describes the resea rch going on in the Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Department a t UPC in both medical areas. Research in these fields usually requires the design and development of specific robotic structures, adapted to the appli cation and the operating environment, as well as some intelligence level an d the development of friendly interfaces to be accepted by the user. (C) 19 99 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.