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Hospital robots, also known as medical robots, are essential tools in the healthcare industry, designed to aid healthcare professionals and enhance patient care within hospital and healthcare settings. These robots serve various functions, including assisting in surgical procedures, conducting mobile tasks, automating pharmacy operations, enabling telepresence and remote caregiving, participating in disinfection routines, enhancing blood drawing processes, supporting rehabilitation efforts, and assisting with administrative responsibilities.
The primary product categories for hospital robots encompass autonomous mobile robots, disinfecting or sterilization robots, laboratory robots, and pharmacy robots. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are robotic systems capable of autonomously performing tasks and navigating through their environment with minimal human intervention. They find deployment across a wide range of medical applications, including laparoscopy, pharmacy operations, orthopedic surgery, external beam radiation therapy, physical rehabilitation, neurosurgery, and others. Hospital robots are utilized by a diverse array of end-users, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, rehabilitation centers, and various healthcare facilities.
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The hospital robots market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $2 billion in 2024 to $2.28 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.1%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to shortage of healthcare professionals, increasing elderly population, rising demand for minimally invasive surgery, demand for patient safety,.
The hospital robots market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $3.96 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.8%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to telemedicine growth, government initiatives, growing demand for rehabilitation robots, increasing demand for surgical robots, growing demand for image-guided surgery, growing awareness of the benefits of hospital robots. Major trends in the forecast period include advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), adoption of 5G technology, ai-driven personalized healthcare, robotics process automation (RPA), iot integration, robotic sterilization and cleaning, patient data security.
The rise in healthcare automation is expected to drive the growth of the hospital robot market in the coming years. Healthcare automation involves the use of technology and software to streamline and optimize various processes within the healthcare sector. Hospital robots play a key role in this automation, assisting surgeons in performing minimally invasive procedures in operating rooms. For example, in September 2024, the World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based international NGO, projected that the robotic-assisted surgery market would grow significantly, reaching over $14 billion by 2026, up from just over $10 billion in 2023. As a result, the increasing automation in healthcare is fueling the growth of the hospital robot market.
The growing number of surgical procedures is expected to drive the growth of the hospital robots market in the coming years. Surgical procedures are medical interventions that involve incisions using instruments, typically performed in an operating room. Hospital robots are increasingly being utilized in various surgical specialties, such as plastic and reconstructive surgeries, to enhance accuracy, precision, and overall patient outcomes. For example, in December 2023, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, a national agency in Australia, reported that the number of elective (non-emergency) surgeries performed in the country's public hospitals increased by 18% from 2021-22 to 2022-23. As a result, the rising number of surgical procedures is fueling the growth of the hospital robots market.
Prominent companies in the hospital robot market are increasingly concentrating on the introduction of hospital delivery robots equipped with elevator technology as a strategy to enhance their market revenues. Elevator technology is a critical component integrated into hospital robots to facilitate efficient and swift movement between different floors within a healthcare facility. As an illustration, in June 2023, Relay Robotics Inc., a US-based provider of robotics solutions, unveiled RelayRx for healthcare. RelayRx represents a hospital delivery robot designed to address the challenges posed by nursing shortages. These robots are instrumental in transporting essential hospital supplies, including test specimens, medications, and equipment. They ensure secure navigation through congested hospital environments while enhancing their navigational capabilities and incorporating security features for maintaining the chain of custody. Utilizing Relay's proprietary elevator technology, these robots can seamlessly traverse a hospital, connecting various areas such as the pharmacy and blood bank to patient rooms in an average time of seven minutes. This technological advancement marks a significant development in the hospital robot market.
In July 2022, Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a US-based medical technology company known for its healthcare robots, completed the acquisition of Parata Systems LLC for an undisclosed sum. This strategic move by BD is aimed at broadening its capabilities in team integration to promote future growth and innovation. The acquisition is intended to address pressing issues within the healthcare sector, including the shortage of clinicians, rising labor costs, the centralization of pharmacy services, and the increased clinical demands placed on pharmacy professionals. Parata Systems LLC, based in the United States, is a company specializing in pharmacy automation solutions.
Major companies operating in the hospital robots market are McKesson Corporation, Johnson and Johnson, Siemens Healthineers, Yujin Robot, Medtronic PLC, ABB Group, Aethon, Becton Dickinson and Company, Stryker Healthcare, Zimmer Biomet Robotics, Intuitive Surgical Inc., KUKA, Omnicell Inc., iRobot Corporation, Globus Medical, Renishaw PLC, Auris Health Inc., Blue Ocean Robotics, PAL Robotics, SoftBank Robotics, Stereotaxis Inc., Verb Surgical Inc., Cyberdyne Inc., Mazor Robotics, Medrobotics Corporation.
North America was the largest region in the hospital robots market in 2024. The regions covered in hospital robots report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
The countries covered in the hospital robots market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The hospital robot market consists of sales of surgical assist robots, care robots, telepresence robots and telemedicine robots. Values in this market are 'factory gate' values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
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