How Chatty Robots Could Help Labor Ward Nurses

An MIT-altered robot backed with AI provided scheduling recommendations to labor ward nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. See how it turned out. MIT researchers were recently able to demonstrate that the could train an altered Nao robot to learn the ins and outs of room scheduling in a labor ward at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Nurses accepted the robot's recommendations 90% of the time. Just to make sure the nurses weren't blindly accepting the robot's advice, the team also had the robot provide consciously bad feedback--which was also rejected at a 90% rate.