Robot Doctors to Provide Health Care Services Soon

With the Covid-19 pandemic hitting hard and social distancing becoming a vital norm, this opens the door for using more robots to provide health care services to reduce in-person contact between the health care workers and the patients. Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and also the senior author of the study said, that they were actively working on robots that can help provide health care services to maximize the safety, of both the patients and the health care workforce. Traverso and his colleagues after the Covid-19 began last year, worked towards reducing interaction between the patients and the health care workers. In this process, they collaborated with Boston Dynamics in creating mobile robots that can interact with patients who waited in the emergency department. But the question here is, how patients are going to respond to the robots?