Towards Next-Generation Healthcare: A Survey of Medical Embodied AI for Perception, Decision-Making, and Action

The article presents a comprehensive survey on medical embodied AI, highlighting its potential to enhance healthcare by integrating perception, decision-making, and action in clinical environments. It addresses the limitations of foundation models in real-world applications and emphasizes the need for a unified system-level understanding of embodied AI in healthcare. The survey reviews existing medical applications, relevant datasets, and identifies challenges faced in clinical practice, providing insights for future research directions in this evolving field.