Robotic Nation Evidence

Robotic nurses set for wards

ROBOTS could soon replace nurses by performing jobs like dispensing drugs, taking temperatures and cleaning up wards.

Health ministers say the machines will make caring for patients cheaper and safer — after trials showed robots make fewer mistakes.

A Department of Health spokesman said: “One robot being developed has an arm like C-3PO in Star Wars. It can mix cancer drugs at an amazing speed.”

Prototypes are being tested in hospitals in Newcastle upon Tyne, Warwick and London.

This is the starting point for the replacement of nurses. Anyone who has been to a hospital and seen the number of (very expensive) people working there knows that robotic replacement of all of them is inevitable.