In a few years, robots could become an integral part of medical staff in hospitals. At Imperial College London, an assistive robot has learned to dress patients in medical gowns. This one was designed by scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK.
The robot is made up of two arms mounted on a mobile structure. To dress the patient, he takes the garment hung on a rail, unfolds it and turns around the bed. He then raises the subject’s arms to put the garment on.
The machine has been evaluated over 200 trials with a training dummy. She displays a success rate of 90.5%. Although this success rate is quite high, it is not likely to be put into service for several years. Indeed, the researchers believe that it risks failing in its task when it is exposed to different situations, and we cannot afford that.
” If you place this robot in a real hospital, even just for this task, it will fail several times due to the variations of the problem. So I don’t think we can say robotic nurses are coming anytime soon, but these are research questions that we need to ask and study in order to move towards that. “, has explained Mehmet Dogarfrom the University of Leeds in the UK.
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