[tt] Robotic Nation Evidence: Robotic nurses

[Brian Atkins]

http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/2007/05/robotic-nurses.html

Robotic nurses set for wards

       ROBOTS could soon replace nurses by performing jobs like dispensing 
drugs, taking temperatures and cleaning up wards.

       Health ministers say the machines will make caring for patients cheaper 
and safer — after trials showed robots make fewer mistakes.

       A Department of Health spokesman said: “One robot being developed has an 
arm like C-3PO in Star Wars. It can mix cancer drugs at an amazing speed.”

       Prototypes are being tested in hospitals in Newcastle upon Tyne, Warwick 
and London.

This is the starting point for the replacement of nurses. Anyone who has been to 
a hospital and seen the number of (very expensive) people working there knows 
that robotic replacement of all of them is inevitable.

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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/