<p>What is artificial intelligence (AI)? What is healthcare robotics? How can AI and healthcare robotics assist in contemporary medicine?</p><p>Robotics and AI can offer society unimaginable benefits such as enabling wheelchair users to walk again performing surgery in a highly automated and minimally invasive way and delivering care more efficiently. <i>AI for Healthcare Robotics </i>explains what healthcare robots are and how AI empowers them in achieving the goals of contemporary medicine.</p>