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Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs – MIT News
Dog-like robots can remotely measure patients’ vital signs and could be used to reduce health care workers’ risk of Covid-19 exposure. The “Dr. Spot” robots, developed by researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are controlled by a handheld device…
The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts.
During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care workers job is assessing people who have symptoms of Covid-19. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Womens Hospital hope to reduce that risk by using robots to remotely measure patients vital signs.
The robots, which are controlled by a handheld device, can also car…
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