Robot Patient Teaches Doctors in Combat Zones

1. bean
   April 1st, 2008 at 6:09 pm

   Heh. I saw a show about military medics that talked about this thing, but they neglected to mention the urinating. Thankfully.

2. Bee
   April 1st, 2008 at 6:25 pm

   It looks zombie-ish.

3. ted
   April 1st, 2008 at 6:28 pm

   I wonder if it leaves the toilet seat up?

4. CheeseDuck
   April 1st, 2008 at 6:40 pm

   What else can it do?

5. Thespian24601
   April 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pm

   “Urinates with uncanny realism.”
   To me, I just don’t want a robot to be doing that; not sure why.

6. empty-minded
   April 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pm

   The thing is that no matter how good the robot is at creating human functions, you know it’s still a robot. So even if you get the screaming, writhing, blood spurting and (above all, the smell) what you’re missing is the knowledge that it’s a real person.

   Now don’t get me wrong, practice is great. In a ‘real’ crisis, the practice definitely helps you to know what you’re doing. But in the real world, it’s never the same as in the simulation lab.

7. Geekazoid
   April 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm

   That’s true empty-minded but I think the Army and military does a great job of training its combat medics, the men and women whose military speciality is as a medic on the battlefield. I’ve seen some of its training methods and it is intense. While I am sure the first time is always a shock, their training seems to kick in despite the blood and gore.

8. Jamie
   April 1st, 2008 at 9:42 pm

   Queens University of Charlotte’s nursing school has a few of these, too.

9. Ali S.
   April 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm

   Not as creepy as the Japanese Dentist robot that would blink and having this dead eye stare…O_O

10. Ryan Cousineau
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    The college where I work has a Nursing program, and they also have a few of these. They’re quite expensive, but they’re a little bit uncanny. They’ll just lie there, breathing, and blinking…

11. daggerphish
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    what happens when you mistake the human for a robot?

    where can i buy one anyway?

12. Christophe
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Is he saying “The horror… the horror…”?

13. aerio
    April 1st, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    With the goofy facial expression you almost expect the nose to be a red light bulb ala the game Operation.

14. luke
    April 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Good call Thespian24601

15. Rosi1
    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am

    This was on the news yesterday and my mum wouldn’t believe her boyfriend when he told her about it. She thought it was an April Fools, so I had to get the page up on wired (and even then she didn’t believe me straight away…)

16. ihateallex
    April 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Creepy

17. munky
    April 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Given that much future ‘war-fighting’ will be outsorced to cybernetic sphere (according to the Pentagon, eyes ever feverishly aglow with the next generation methods of turning the Bad Guys Du Jour into hamburger), perhaps these victim mannequins should be offering up next-gen war-wounds - RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, und so weite

18. Cindy
    April 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    What’s next? Give it a brain and teach it to speak?

19. Kat
    April 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    My University is getting a new nursing department and we are getting 3 of those robots. One man, one baby, and one pregnant woman. I’m curious to see what the pregnant woman looks like.

20. su.wei
    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    what a great idea. my doctor was telling me that today, most nurses learn how to give stitches and such on video.

21. linabeena
    April 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Wow, that’s really cool. Just a shame that we have wars and wounded soldiers and casualties in the first place

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