Robot nurses ready for wards 'in three years'
Robot nurses ready for wards 'in three years' | News | This is London
I was keeping vigil overnight, on the third floor, at a hospital here in the US (Georgia) back in December, 2006 ... and I heard this beeping coming down the hallway, around 5 or 6 A.M. ... I opened the door after it passed, and was surprised to see a robot on its way to the nurses station. I then recalled reading in the paper about the hospital purchasing such a robot to distribute meds from the pharmacy, along with ferrying papers, etc. ... One of the nurses told me, that the robot will wait politely for the (service/staff) elevator to be empty, before it will enter. It will not go inside if one of the staff is already on board.
While not as advanced as the ones mentioned in this article, it shows that robots in hospitals, are already making inroads.
I was keeping vigil overnight, on the third floor, at a hospital here in the US (Georgia) back in December, 2006 ... and I heard this beeping coming down the hallway, around 5 or 6 A.M. ... I opened the door after it passed, and was surprised to see a robot on its way to the nurses station. I then recalled reading in the paper about the hospital purchasing such a robot to distribute meds from the pharmacy, along with ferrying papers, etc. ... One of the nurses told me, that the robot will wait politely for the (service/staff) elevator to be empty, before it will enter. It will not go inside if one of the staff is already on board.
While not as advanced as the ones mentioned in this article, it shows that robots in hospitals, are already making inroads.
posted by Deep Hal at 4:19:00 AM
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