I just read
this article, concerned with the possibility of doctors one day being replaced by robots. I thought it was very interesting. I am a bit of a technophile, and the thought of an
iRobot style world, with robots to help us with all the different aspects of our lives literally makes me giddy. Seriously... how cool would that be?
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| Awesome, or scary? Your call. |
So I was reading about
iRobot (a robotics company, not the movie this time) and how they have put a 6 million dollar investment into the healthcare company InTouch Health. iRobot recently developed Ava, a robot with a tablet (Android or Apple or whatever) for a head and a robots body. They are hoping that this robot, the first step along the way towards personal robots, would be able to be used in a healthcare setting in the near future. This could be something simple, such as following doctors to help them manage patients' information or vitals or whatever, to something more complex such as educating patients about their disease when other healthcare professionals are occupied. I thought this was really cool!
