Do you think that Robo Health Care is in our near future?”
new mobile robotic doctor is doing trial patient rounds at a handful of hospitals in the United States and United Kingdom. If successful it could change the face of doctor-patient consultations. Callan Emery reports.Imagine you are a patient lying in bed in the Intensive Care Unit recovering from an operation and, in place of your physician, a silver metallic robot just over five feet tall rolls into your room. It moves to your bedside and asks how you feel. It listens to you and replies. It reads your medical chart and checks your vital signs on the bedside monitor. It then advises your nurse about adjusting your medication before spinning around and zooming out of your room and down the corridor to the next room where it checks on more of its patients. Sound like science fiction? It’s not.A robot, named RP-6, (makes you think of R2D2 of Star Wars fame) is currently making rounds at a handful of hospitals in the United States and the United Kingdom where it is being tested.RP-6, howev
