Once-Promising Robot Anesthesiologist Loses Its Job

The robots were supposedly coming for our jobs. Not just the blue collar jobs, but also the highly trained and exceptionally well-paid jobs of anesthesiologists. These doctors help patients walk the dangerously thin line between pain-free unconsciousness and death, and for that their services can cost 2,000 per procedure. A robot named Sedasys could do the same job for more like 200 … except that nobody wants to buy it. Several outlets are reporting that Johnson & Johnson will stop selling Sedasys because of poor sales.