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Robots in Hospitals
Dieppe writes "Robot couriers are being used in hospitals CNN. The robots are being used as delivery 'bots to deliver medicine and other hospital supplies. They are polite, and even can be overly cautious. I wonder if at night they supply them with saws, arms and other cutting devices and let them at each other? Turns out they're cost effective as well!"
There was a comic I won at a school fair in the late 60's, with cover ripped off (probably return donated by distributor) Magnus Robot Fighter, which would fit the bill rather well.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Uh, I think we all know what happens next.
Doctor: Scalpel.
Robot: Scalpel.
Doctor: Domo arigato, Nurse Roboto.
"I only speak the truth"
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The HelpMate asks people, "please examine my contents," when it makes a delivery.
I can't wait to see what phrase gets hacked into the voice processsor to replace this informative gem.
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Too bad that they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
dinner: it's what's for beer
In the brave new world, the terrorists will come armed with coloured tape to control the robot hoards.
Evil people are out to get you.
The day when the robots are seen searching the hospital records for a particular "Sarah Connor"
"Me fail English, that's unpossible." --Ralphie
I heard that lawsuit is just limping along though.
>I wonder if at night they supply them with saws,
>arms and other cutting devices and let them at each
>other? Turns out they're cost effective as well!
The first rule of Robot Club is _no_ talking about Robot Club.
Well, sort of anyway. I work in alot of hospitals all around the country. Anyway, at one of the hospitals, I get in the elivator on the first floor, push the button for the 3rd floor and the door closed.
The elivator stops on the second floor and one of these robots get in. It took what seemed like forever for it to get in the elivator and get turned around. Once it had turned the right way in the elivator it then proceeded to make a bunch of tones.
The doors closed, and the elivator began to move, it then bypassed my floor went all the way to the 8th floor. Where it got out and left me standing their.
Apparently at this hospital the robots have priority on all elivator trafic. It simply overrode my selection and put in its own.
Damn Robots.
No sexual harassment lawsuits
No labor strikes
No complaints from handling things that smell bad
No danger from needlesticks or infections
Less possibility of contamination from outside sources or recontamination from things like cell phones
Easier to sterilize than live personel
More privacy
Unfortunatly, robots have been known to beat up old people and steal their medicine. And once they have you, you can't get away because robots are very strong. Fortunatly, they're coming out with insurance for people who are worried that they might become the victim of robots.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Nobody would claim to write that piece of crap.
ResidntGeek
Anyone who thinks a robot can be "overly cautious" hasn't watched enough Arnold movies. I mean, unless the robot makes you sign reams of bureaucratic forms before it will do anything, or something like that.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
>> Oh, yeah. I can just see the original thinkers at Hollywood, Inc. making a movie about these.
> Hey! We could call it "I Robot"! Man, I can hear Asimov rolling around in his coffin...
Wow, the way you connected the dots there is just scary insightful.
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If there's a robot to empty bed-pans or colostomy bags, I don't think anybody would mind giving up that job.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
I'm currently working on obtaining the patent for a Asimov/Dead Author generator.
Preliminary tests show that as long as Hollywood exists they will churn out enough derivitive drivel to fuel the dead author's spin. By harnessing that spin we could do away with all other forms of electricity generation.
A second patent has been filed to collect the fury of Harlen Ellison and turn it into useful energy. Although when he dies he'll be added to the Dead Author Energy Farm(tm).
The final patent I have pending is to collect the energy spent for keystrokes from Slashdot users and turn it into something useful. I figure other garbage can be recycled into fuel - why not Slashdot posts.
I can't wait to see what phrase gets hacked into the voice processsor to replace this informative gem.
"Hey, check out my package."
"Somebody order a pizza?"
"Does this smell funny to you?"
"I swear to god, it was like that when I got it."
And my personal favorite:
"Hey, what'll you give me for this crap?"
normal(adj)- people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots [DECS]
I've always thought a good application of microsurgical robotics would be internet-based multi-surgeon environments. :)
I would think having 5 or 6 neurosurgeons working simultaneously could acheive rather extrordianry things. Say, reattachment of much beloved body parts (that's always been my favorite sugical application).
Or, multi-surgeon environments could simply make lenghty operations much more speedy (getting a surgery done as soon as safely possible is certainly benificial in most situations).
Come to think of it, why stop at 5 sugeons? make it a 64 surgeon server. I'm sure the insurance companies will love footing the bill for 64 neurosurgeons
Just make sure your hospital has installed punk-buster.
...I'd ask, "Who goes there? Friend or Enema?"
I bet all the protologists in the ENTIRE WORLD can't wait to be replaced by robots.
/insert additional joke about working with assholes all day long
It seems likes Robocop has really bored the people, ..."
it's time to make a new serial for the tv,
"Emergency Room 2, - RoboDoc arrives
i wonder how fast can a robot "learn-it-all" ?
as for human doctors, it takes about 10 years ? or even more?
and then they'll get a unprofitable job at a public hospital
where they have a zero possibility to make a great career whatsoever.
de facto, i'd better trust myself into the hands of
ancient asian healers or western-culture witches than
into the doctors hands we have nowadays. can robots bring
a change in here ?
an excellent AI with nanometer exact slicing'n'cutting
techniques and no drinking'or'drugs problems surely does
look much more promisin' than the doctors now.
as for nurses, i think human nurses will always be better
(more human), especially if they are from the opposite sex;)
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
If a weak flow of air can be made to switch a stronger one's direction, or switch it on and off, we're ALL screwed. Elaborate networks of air currents, switching one another on and off, could be designed using Boole's rules of logic, and BAM you've got a machine that thinks. Give it two weeks and it will take away all our jobs.
Some may welcome our new pneumatic tube masters, but I say they 4r3 teh 3v1L and must be stopped! If you see a tube and you think there might be compressed air in it, try cutting it open. If anything besides air comes out, slap some duct tape on there real fast. But if only air comes out, you may have just allowed a family to eat dinner. If you're not sure it's air, examine the gas carefully with a lighter.
One thing a lot of people don't know: those DIGSAFE signs in your neighborhood are part of a vast conspiracy, providing the pneumatic tubes an unseen underground haven to raise their young. Get your shovel, seek them out, and hammer nails into them. (But keep a defibrillator handy.)
WWJD for a Klondike Bar?