The Robot-Assisted Hospital as It Now Exists
March 24, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
When the University of California San Francisco’s Mission Bay Hospital opened early this year, it claimed to have “the largest fleet of hospital robots in the world.” How many, exactly, is that? 25. This one level hospital, the size of three football fields, has only 25 robotic delivery carts. That may be ahead of any other hospital in the US, but it’s far short of an “autonomous hospital” with automated patient gurneys and wheel chairs, automated room sanitizers, physician rounding robots, et al. The Navy’s autonomous aircraft carrier project—a Nimitz class ship that functions with a crew of 600 instead of 6,000 because of numerous automated systems—ought to be the comparable for the hospital of the future. MORE
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