Integration of Titanium Alloys in Robotic Design and the Rise of Medical Robotics

Abstract

The  fusion of advanced materials with modern robotics creates excellent results in robotic systems, increasingly applied in industrial, aerospace, and medical applications. Among such materials titanium alloys have found wide acceptance due to high specific strengths with attributes that include resistance to corrosion, biocompatibility, thermal stability—thus ideal for surgical robots, mobile robots as well as precision robots. The main problems are cost, machinability and weldability plus low-temperature brittleness. Meanwhile, innovation in medical robotics has raised the bar wherein the current scope of implementation includes surgical support, sterilization support and ancillary medication support together with vital sign monitoring and remote procedures highly necessitated because of COVID-19. Exemplified by da Vinci robot systems that productively combine titanium parts with state-of-art technologies giving a chance for minimally invasive surgery extremely accurate and safe operations. This paper will review the major titanium alloys which currently find application in making robots, criteria relevant to material selection and development cum application of medical robots besides having technical cum economic cum ethical challenges. It also discusses future trajectories in AI, VR/AR, and surgical automation with a note that the right choice of alloys and further innovations are key to making possible the subsequent generation of high-performance robotic systems.