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Medicine as a process and practice, i.e., the medical technology of the future, will be based on robotics. Our cooperation with robots, both as service providers and recipients of medical services, will require appropriate behaviour and education from us, including modification of applicable laws and ethics, also. Engineers are facing challenges to make robots cheaper, easier to use and safe. The robot allows us to multiply the work. Telecommunications robots and technology allow us to transfer our competences and possibilities of action to where they are most important at the moment–despite the distance from the patient. So we can contrast with robot mobility–information mobility. Do we already have Robot-Based Medicine today? And do we have any other solution to the problems of humanity and the health service? This chapter reviews issues related to the use of robots in medicine; from technical to ethical. The …