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Robots in Hospitals

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-can-they-make-a-good-martini dept.

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!"

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  1. Let's Make a Movie! Yow! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh, yeah. I can just see the original thinkers at Hollywood, Inc. making a movie about these. Robots, designed to serve and help mankind, a minor flaw, they think for themselves and start taking out the patients systematically until some tough macho cop, probably played by a typecast actor shows up and swaggers a lot and blows them apart with the kind of gun only SWAT teams and infantry are issued, all the while uttering expletives which only entertain juveniles. They'll probably rip off the title of some great sci-fi classic, too, just to promote the lousy thing.

    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.

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  2. Speaking Of Crappy Movies by lickalotapus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh, I think we all know what happens next.

  3. .oO by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doctor: Scalpel.

    Robot: Scalpel.

    Doctor: Domo arigato, Nurse Roboto.

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  4. Shh!! by sserendipity · · Score: 5, Funny

    >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.

  5. I was kidnapped by one of those Robots! by blaberski · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.