Robotorama » Robotic Medicine http://www.robotorama.com Robots for Work and Play Sat, 23 May 2009 01:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Robot doctors, move over Voyager http://www.robotorama.com/archives/2005/05/31/robot-doctors-move-over-voyager/ http://www.robotorama.com/archives/2005/05/31/robot-doctors-move-over-voyager/#comments Tue, 31 May 2005 09:53:53 +0000 B.Greenway http://www.robotorama.com/?p=4 doctor.jpgKyushu University (Japan) has helped develop a robotic doctor that can check the pulse, blood pressure and other vital data when the patient ’sits on it’ that sounds a bit odd but ok, the data is then sent to a hospital by wireless local area network. I wonder what this will do to malpractice insurance rates?

All kidding aside these robo-docs are intended for use in areas where human MD’s are unavailable or to bolster those busy with other more critical tasks.

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