Dec 10 2010
Researchers at the Vanderbilt University have presented a new proposal for reducing the wait time at the hospital emergency room by developing exclusive robots.
Mitch Wilkes, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented this proposal titled “Heterogeneous Artificial Agents for Triage Nurse Assistance,” at the Humanoids 2010 conference, which was held in Nashville.
This proposal imagines a waiting room of the emergency section in which patients are admitted by means of a robotic cabin and their major signs are closely monitored by robotic chairs. Further, another team of robots would watch out for patients who have expired or whose major signs have weakened.
The robotic system enables patients to enroll themselves and their major signs will be recorded even in the absence of the hospital team. Later the hospital staff would be notified by the robots.
Vanderbilt scientists are developing the registration robot. It was reported that a group of engineering students headed by Erdem Erdemir, a graduate student, are developing an archetype featuring a camera system, weight scale, touch-screen display, blood oxygenation and pulse measuring device.
Source: http://www.vanderbilt.edu