Medical Robots

[Slater]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050518/sc_nm/health_robots_dc
what do you think about this?

[Mr. SmartyPants]

they're gonna stab and kill people with morphine

[Mithrandir]

Question: What's a Morphone?

Answer: It's a phone that doubles it's ring volume every 18 months.


*rimshot*

[Joshua Christopher]

Roujin Z, that's what I think.

[Kaligraphic]

Soon, soon my daleks will have infiltrated the british medical establishment. Soon, I and I alone shall control who lives and who dies in the hospitals. My daleks shall conquer the world!

Er, you didn't read that, did you? j/k, j/k!

[Mr. SmartyPants]

XD hah silly oldphil

i meant morphine

[Technomancer]

His bedside manner was a bit mechanical...

Anyways, it's an interesting article, but there's a lot more going on in the field than these little guys. I remember Dr. Shiraspour was giving a course on telerobotics last semester, with the primary focus on medical robotics (I didn't take this course, I did a Neural Networks class instead. I'm not really up on control theory or mechatronics anyways). Doing a brief search on IEEE Xplore turned up quite a lot of articles: 635 to be precise.

[Joshua Christopher]

It has come to my attention that none of you know what Roujin Z is.

[Ichigo_89]

It has come to my attention that none of you know what Roujin Z is.

*raises hand* I KNOW, I KNOW! It's some old anime done by the Akira dude about robots attending the elderly in retirement homes, right?

[Fsiphskilm]

I'd use as m

[Stephen]

This will ruin hospital stays in general. I mean now, guys won't be able to flirt with cute nurses if there made of metal. Geez I can see it now...try to hit on one...and she swings me around the room by my foot. Blah.