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Flying robots or Drones are materializing as an innovative curative aid that can alleviate logistic and delivery problems of health care aids to hard to access areas, transport of microbiological, laboratory samples, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, emergency equipment’s, Telemedicine’s, clinical care, etc. The contemporary health care system of the present decade is focused to improve the quality of people’s lives by using advanced technology. This chapter reviews different literature and discuss various applications of flying robot in the health care system and medical-related issues used worldwide. Flying robot is acting as a boon to health care service providers especially in pandemic situations to improve their efficiency. Further an extensive study has been done to represents different areas where the flying robot can be used in the health care sector to modernize our medical sector using disruptive technology.
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Maity, R., Mishra, R., Pattnaik, P.K. (2022). A Review of Flying Robot Applications in Healthcare. In: Pattnaik, P.K., Vaidya, A., Mohanty, S., Mohanty, S., Hol, A. (eds) Smart Healthcare Analytics: State of the Art. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 213. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5304-9_8
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