title: [A perspective on medical robotics].
abstract: Medical robotics has played an increasingly important role in the recent years in robotics field. An overview of the minimally invasive surgery robots, rehabilitative robots and hospital service robots are offered here, and relevant tendencies are also referred to.
authors.affiliation: Robotics Institute, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
authors.forename: Tian-Miao
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Da-Peng
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Da
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends*