Over the last few decades, new engineering designs have made tremendous impact on the healthcare industry with solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and therapy of a wide range of medical conditions. In recent years, new designs of bio-inspired machines have been proposed for terrestrial and aerial applications. As one would expect, a detailed survey of these areas is impossible to accomplish in a few pages. Hence, this brief survey highlights three topics: (i) Gait rehabilitation machines, (ii) minimal invasive surgical machines, and (iii) flapping wing flying machines.

Issue Section:
Introduction
Keywords:
health care, biomedical engineering, biomedical equipment, patient rehabilitation, handicapped aids, biomechanics, design engineering, biomimetics
Topics:
Biomedicine, Biomimetics, Health care, Machinery, Wings, Surgery
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