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Spot the Robot Dog to Measure COVID-19 Patients’ Vitals – Interesting Engineering
MIT researchers and others are working on turning Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robot dog into a medical assistant that takes patients’ vital signs, so as to minimize health care workers’ contact with potentially infected people.
Health care workers are coming face to face with the COVID-19 virus regularly by being in close contact with patients, or people potentially contagious.
A team of MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers is looking to reduce that contact by using robots that can take patients’ vitals and send the results directly to a remote doctor.
The robots are also able to carry a tablet that can assist a virtual doctor to ask direct questions to the patient in another room.
The study is curren…
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