Hospitals around the world are beginning to dispatch more service robots in order to cope and replace the massive workers shortages, attributed to strikes and protests, and being laid-off due to things like vaccine mandates.
As reported by Euro News, Milton Keynes University Hospital in the United Kingdom has begun to employ robots to alleviate the job crunch. These robots mostly are relegated to chore duty to distribute medicine to staff and patients.
This particular robot in use was developed by the Academy of Robotics. The model is named “Milton,” an autonomous bot that uses LiDAR and sonar technology so it can find its way around. Milton has a penguin-shape look to it.
One of the biggest problems we don’t know about is called ‘To-Take-Out (TTO),’ where you’ve been discharged and technically, you’re just waiting on your medicine. And these hospitals can be very, very big. It’s like a 15-minute walk sometimes just to go get the medicine, bring it back, 30 patients simultaneously.
It might make sense for super-intelligent robots to do the delivery run safely while the humans focus on the patients.
William Sachiti, founder and CEO of the Academy of Robotics
Meanwhile in the U.S. at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, a robot called “Moxi” has been in service since June of 2022, standing at 5-feet tall, which are ‘equipped with a digital screen on her chest and an ID badge to open doors implanted in her robotic arm,’ Euro News said.
The hospital says that one of these robots is on par with roughly 6 human workers.
A lot of times, I was the one kind of running around the hospital, picking everything up, and you put on a lot of miles working in a hospital, doing all that walking around.
Tom Angelos, patient care technician at Elmhurst, said
If you’ve got a workforce shortage, one of the things that you can do is really think about making sure that the people that you do have are focused on what they need to be focused on. And so that’s really what automation and our kind of solution are about.
CEO and co-founder of Diligent Robotics Andrea Thomas, the maker of Moxi, said
Meanwhile healthcare services in Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have employed Aeolus Robotics’s “Aeo” robot, to both aid in nursing and errand running.
It can go and check on residents. It can do deliveries overnight and just work all night in the dark. So the infrared camera is a new thing we’re launching that really expands the capability quite a bit.
Dan Haddick, CEO of Aeolus Robotics, said
But these developers claim that there robots are not here to replace actual workers.
We’re not relying on Moxi to interact with patients.
That’s still our privilege and honour, so we get to spend more time with them.
Diane Butts, Clinical manager of surgical oncology at Elmhurst Memorial, said
William Sachiti added,
A hammer still needs a carpenter. Whilst these robots are autonomous, they still are there to be tools to help people do their jobs. So, for us, we strongly believe the best machines should be there when needed and out of the way when not.
In June of 2020 Euro News noted in a separate piece that a hospital in Brussels, Belgium, started using a robot to better protect against Covid-19 infections.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The robots are here and they are taking: ignore the gaslighting that says otherwise.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Proverbs 21:25
While there are definitely other reasons at play, a big reason for this takeover is due to pure laziness and convenience; which is preicisely want to the elites want and are working to usher in.
It’s classic Problem, Reaction, Solution. Now that most sectors and fields are short workers, who not only want to work but are able to perform the task, now they are beginning to replace these workers with robots. Eventually robots will nearly if not completely takeover entire sectors in the years to come.
WinePress readers know that I have reported on the robot takeover in most sectors already, beyond just healthcare. This is only the beginning.
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And less people due to all the deaths over the last few years
As if a Jesuit trained nurse wasn’t evil enough, now we’ll have Rosie the robot being a nurse, that sounds safer!
Those robots steal jobs that are desperately needed. I have to disagree though that it’s through sloth that the demand for robots are growing….as some businesses absolutely would get rid of their human staff and replace with robots if they had the resources to do so, robots don’t need a toilet break, no coffee breaks, they don’t need sleep or get sick so the business managers can have them running 24/7 and 365 days a year….much more productive and in the long run the cost of outlay for the robots would be made up quickly because they robots can do the work of several people. However, that being said, robots are more popular because people are growing more lazy (think of smart technology because people don’t want to get off sofa, turn on light, turn on tv for me, play music or whatever voice commands)
I feel very sorry indeed for the delivery drivers worried about the automated self driving trucks, the robots completely revolutionized the factories and most factories have automatic robots on the assembly line…
Will we see more robots taking jobs? Yes of course…
Teachers, nursing, restaurant staff robots and loads more jobs….
Some people said the cell mobile phone wouldn’t be popular, before the 21st century when they looked resembled more like bricks with an aerial….and now we see them everywhere, everyone has one!!!! I am guessing you’re reading this on some kind of smartphone!!!
I don’t know if we shall see robots everywhere just yet, but we are on the trajectory for them you be, seeing the amount invested in them and various Universities having some form of robotics and engineering departments, including the University in my home city….I am guessing that they are working on the same thing over where you guys are the other side of Atlantic Ocean…
Some robots are useful and I would prefer them to do dangerous jobs, where people have life threatening jobs….rather than low-risk ones
God bless you all