MIT's Robot Assistant Gives Nurses A Second Opinion

Ask the robot about the bad decision, and then don't do what it says. Hospitals are, even at the best of times, a sort of ordered chaos. Patients, overwhelmed by it all, wait or wander looking for care. Nurses and doctors, in the thick of it, juggle deep knowledge with pressing need and dozens of immediate tasks. It's a lot to manage, which is why researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory trained a small NAO robot to evaluate the situation and offer suggestions when asked.