Biomechatronics: people with disabilities or technology with limitations?

Abstract

This research has an objective to broach the impact of biomechatronics on health, looking for encourage the research, design, and development in the different levels of university education through a literature review. The search was carried out in conferences, books, interviews, original and review articles between 2000 to 2020. The descriptors used are biomechatronics, disability, technology, artificial intelligence, on the ScienceDirect and Scielo databases. The search resulted in 174; after the exclusion of duplicates and selection through title and systematic review, 28 articles were included in the research. The discoveries evince a great interest in the development of biomechatronics in order to help the human being to overcome difficulties caused by health, accidents, or genetics, integrating technologies like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, 3D printing, among others, which is of academic interest and of reflection due to the technological, scientific, and ethical implications.