The Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) as well as TIH of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), signed an MoU on Wednesday to set up India’s first Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) at IIIT-Delhi.

Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) will be a technology-enabled medical simulation as well as a training facility for the young resident doctors. It will also act as a validation centre for various research outcomes in the field of healthcare robotics as well as digital health. The centre would facilitate the training of other healthcare professionals, paramedical staff, technicians, engineers, as well as researchers.

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

The programmes would be at multiple levels (basic/advanced) and cohort-specific like urology, neurology, laparoscopy, and others but initially limited to minimum invasive surgeries.