Medical robot system, data analysis apparatus, and medical-robot monitoring method

A data analysis apparatus communicating with medical robots placed at different locations over an external network, each of the medical robots comprising a controller and a patient-facing robot capable of surgically accessing a patient under control of the controller, the data analysis apparatus comprising:

• a database that stores data of a state of operation of each of the patient-facing robots;
• and
• a data analysis unit that statistically generates a reference value for determining whether one of the medical robots are normal or abnormal among a population of the medical robots, using the data collected from the medical robots as sample data, wherein
• the data analysis unit monitors a difference between the data transmitted from the medical robot and the generated reference value, determines whether the difference exceeds a threshold value, and notifies an abnormity when the difference exceeds the threshold value.

A medical-robot monitoring method comprising:

• causing a data analysis apparatus to collect data of a state of operation of each of medical robots placed at different locations over an external network, each of the medical robots comprising a controller and a patient-facing robot capable of surgically accessing a patient under control of the controller;
• statistically generating a reference value for determining whether one of the medical robots are normal or abnormal among a population of the medical robots, using the data collected from the medical robots as sample data;
• monitoring a difference between the data transmitted from each of the medical robots and the generated reference value;
• determining whether the difference exceeds a threshold value;
• and
• notifying an abnormity when the difference exceeds the threshold value.