Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/10/nonthreatening-robots.html
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" they are designed to be cute and nonthreatening, and to give social cues that humans intuitively grasp, like looking in the direction they’re moving."
Lulling us into a false sense of security, eh?
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This is going to result in a whole new genre of sexy nurse porn.
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Oh, wow, what a cute looking ro… HOLY FUCK! WHAT’S WITH THAT GODDAMN FREAKIN’ ROBO-SNAKE ARM CLAW!?
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I for one welcome our new robot overlords. How bad can they be, say compared to our current day Gov.?
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This make sense, where robots can do some simple tasks to free up the nurses to do other tasks. You know, like move forms around, refill supplies, and feed patients ice cream.
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If RNs were freed up to work to the top of their training, patient care would increase exponentially.
Not that any person is above any task, but nurses emptying trash cans and cleaning rooms is a waste of a precious resource.
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Given the cases of emotional attachment to (generally much more starkly utilitarian) bomb disposal robots; I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised that people would take to one designed to push at least some ‘cute’ buttons.
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Where else would you mount the mechanized euthenic autoinjector?
Now hold still, this will only sting for a moment.
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And then it will become absolute agony for hours.
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I have no mouth but I must icecream.
Years back my wife slid off a chair while feeding our son, and pressed the call button. No nurse came, possibly because they thought she had had enough attention recently. In most industries, there would be solid rules for that but medicine seems not to have caught up.
So a comparatively simple machine which performs programmed tasks may actually be preferred by patients.
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