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Hospital Robots

Posted by timothy on from the soon-it-will-seem-weird-to-notice dept.

bluegreenone writes: "The Washington Post has an article about hospital robots. The most interesting part was hearing the robot's 'co-workers' describe their relationship with him." Only slightly scary.

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  1. AI finally gets a home by southpolesammy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, it only took 50 years, but looks like the commercial world has finally found a practical application for AI. It would be interesting to find out if the robot is adaptable to its surroundings, or if it is just a command follower -- like the automatons that rove around assembly plants and such. It sounds like it has a fairly decent forward motion detection module and that its mobility module is integrated into that nicely as well. I wonder though if it is capable of maze transversal, and other classical AI applications.

    May be worth keeping an eye on in the future...

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    Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
  2. "The door into summer" by shilly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Robert Heinlein's record at predictions never ceases to amaze me: not only did he decribe robots working in this way in a hospital, he also depicted a number of the problems and solutions that are talked about here. Check out "The Door Into Summer" to see what I mean.

  3. Re:Scary? by zsmooth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It sounded to me like Tim was saying the relationship the co-workers have developed with the robot is scary, not the robot itself.