The Innovation Center (TIH) of Indian Institute of Innovation Delhi (IIT Delhi) and TIH of Indraprastha Institute of Details Technology Delhi (IIITD), signed an MoU on Wednesday to establish Indias first Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) at IIIT-Delhi.

The training programmes will be designed in assessment with leading doctors/experts, primarily from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at New Delhi, Jodhpur, and other distinguished medical colleges.

Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) will be a technology-enabled medical simulation and training facility for the young resident doctors. It will also act as a recognition centre for the research study outcomes in the area of health care robotics and digital health. The centre would help with the training of other health care specialists, paramedical personnel, service technicians, engineers, and researchers.

The programmes would be at numerous levels (basic/advanced) and cohort-specific like urology, neurology, laparoscopy, and others however at first limited to minimum intrusive surgeries.