Selected topics in design and application of a robot for remote medical examination with the use of ultrasonography and ascultation from the perspective of the REMEDI project

This article presents a robot for remote noninvasive medical examination. In particular, this robot allows a doctor to carry out an interview, an observation, an auscultation and an ultrasound examination, including echocardiography. The robot has been developed within the ReMeDi (Remote Medical Diagnostician) project funded by the European Union’s Research and Innovation 7th Framework Programme. At the beginning of the article, we outline selected results of the user’s evaluation of the robot idea together with the requirements regarding the robot. Then the essential system components are presented and a selection of them are discussed in detail. Subsequently we present the integrated system and discuss selected topics concerning the integration. Finally, the document is completed by a description of the users evaluation process.