Aging and rapidly increasing populations are placing more demands on global health systems. Yet, even in the midst of these unprecedented population growths, many countries are also experiencing shortfalls in qualified staff. The competing demands of increasing healthcare provision in a shrinking personnel market are now, and will increasingly in the future, have an enormous impact across all areas of medical provision including training, rehabilitation, social care, prosthetics, surgery, diagnosis, physical and social assistance, and disabled and elderly care. It is therefore not surprising that robotics is increasingly seen as a key (and perhaps the key) to address this looming healthcare crisis. This presentation will consider how robotics and wearable technology can help provide sustainable health provision across all areas of medical support. Initially it will consider the global aspects of the crisis before focusing on some specific medical technologies, particularly those developed at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) including; surgical assistive and intervention technologies such as: CALM (Computer Assisted Laser Microsurgery) the world’s most advanced throat surgery system, the world’s first 5G Telesurgery procedure, unique Smart Probes for detection and characterization of tissue type including malignancy of the throat, pioneering pediatric interventions for neurosurgery and Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), Smart Cannulisation (CathBot and CathBot Pro), Magnetically driven Fibre Optic Lasers for enhanced endoscopic surgery, and Endoscopic Tissue Analysis to support and improve cancer diagnosis and treatment. The presentation will conclude with an analysis of where, and how, this technology can be applied and it will suggest how this can lead to better outcomes for patients, physicians, healthcare systems/providers and society.