Robotic Online Triage For Testing; NYC/LA Avoiding Test Except Where Treatment Would Change

CDC Offers Online Triage For Coronavirus Testing by Susannah Cullinane.  CNN.  March 22, 2020.

Miniature Biorobots For Medicine

New Remote-Controlled Microrobots For Medical Operations.  Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne/Science Daily.  July 22, 2016

Autonomous Robots In The Operating Room

Robots Stake Their Claim In The Operating Room by Dennis Thompson.  HealthDay/Real Clear Health.  May 5, 2016

Simulated Old Age By Means Of A Robot May Help Create Empathy

Futuristic Suit That Gives You A Taste Of Old Age by Andy Newman.  The New York Times.  March 31, 2016

Google And Johnson & Johnson Team On Robots For Minimally-Invasive Surgery

Google Moves To The Operating Room In Robotics Deal With J&J by Alistair Barr and Joseph Walker.  Wall Street Journal.  March 27, 2015. 

Robots To Treat Ebola Patients Discussed At White House Conference

Ebola-Tackling Robots To Be Discussed By The White House by Jen Copestake.  BBC.  November 6, 2014.

Robots Zap Hospital Germs With Ultraviolet Rays

Fighting Infectious Disease The Modern Way.  Science Daily.  June 21, 2013.

(1)  According to studies the robots eliminate (C. diff) Clostridium difficile in ________________ and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in ________________.

(2)  Hospital infections are linked to approximately __________ deaths each year and add as much as ______________ in medical costs.

Robots Come To The Hospital: The New Physician Extenders

Paging R2-D2 To the Hospital ICU by Scott Martin, USA TODAY.  May 23, 2013.

Read the article above and test your recall and comprehension with a few questions.

(1)  The latest hospital come from iRobot which makes the __________ vacuum cleaner.

(2)  Robots could address  ______________ and _______________ especially for remote hospitals.

(3)  In the hospital discussed in the article, how have robots improved stroke treatment and "door-to-needle" time.

(4)  What are the two reasons, cited by a doctor in the article, that make hospitals difficult places to innovate?

(5)  Aethon is a company that focuses on robotic _____________ in hospitals.  Aethon's CEO estimates there is a $_______ market for such robots.

(6)  GE sees opportunities in _________ and tracking of ____________.

(7)  The difficult task will be baking ______________________ together to create task-oriented workers.

Robots: Helpers, Caregivers, Friends For The Elderly?

Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, To Care For Aging by Nick Bilton.  Disruptions.  The New York Times.  May 20, 2013.  

(1)  By 2030, there will be __________ million Americans over the age of 65.  

(2)  By 2020 there will be a need for ______% more home aide jobs.  Because of low salaries, these jobs are difficult to fill.  In many states, the average in-home aid makes $ ___________.

(3)  The gap between demand and supply of in-home aides may spark an interest in _________ to provide care.  

(4)  At Georgia Institute of Technology, a robot has been developed that is gentle enough to __________________.  

(5)  What are some of the tasks that robots being developed now can do to care for the elderly?

(6)  According to MIT professor Sherry Turkle  what are ethical implications of using robots to communicate with the elderly?  

(7)  According to a Georgia Tech study older people attached importance to ____________ in determining the task they trusted the robot to do.  Give examples.  

(8)  How does the perspective of Wendy A. Rogers at Georgia Tech differ from that of Sherry Turkle at MIT regarding the ethical implications of the relationship of robots with the elder?

JAMA: Benefits Of Robotic Surgery for Hysterectomies Questioned

Study Raises Doubts Over Robotic Surgery by Melinda Beck.  The Wall Street Journal.  February 19, 2013.

The study found that robotic hysterectomies cost one-third more than other minimally invasive surgery with little aded benefit.  Laparoscopic hysterectomies, also a minimally invasive technique, costs less.  The head of Intuitive Surgical, the maker of the the da Vinci robotic system, in effect questioned the premise of the study saying that da Vinci was not to compete with laparoscopy but was purposed to provide access to minimally invasive surgery to  women for whom laparoscopic procedures do not work as well.