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Lacking health workers, Germany taps robots for elder care
AFP via TheLocal.de ^ | Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:28 CEST

Posted on 03/22/2023 4:48:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The white-colored humanoid “Garmi” does not look much different from a typical robot — it stands on a platform with wheels, and is equipped with a black screen on which two blue circles acting as eyes are attached.

But retired German doctor Guenter Steinebach, 78, said: “For me, this robot is a dream.” Not only is Garmi able to perform diagnostics on patients, it can also provide care and treatment for them. Or at least, that is the plan.

Garmi is a product of a new sector called geriatronics, a discipline that taps advanced technologies like robotics, IT and 3D technology for geriatrics, gerontology and nursing. About a dozen scientists built Garmi with the help of medical practitioners like Steinebach at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence. Part of the Technical University of Munich, the institute based its unit specializing in geriatronics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a ski resort that is home to one of the highest proportion of elderly people in Germany.

Europe’s most populous country is itself one of the world’s most rapidly aging societies. With the number of people needing care growing quickly and an estimated 670,000 carer posts to go unfilled in Germany by 2050, the researchers are racing to conceive robots that can take over some of the tasks carried out today by nurses, carers and doctors.

“We have ATMs where we can get cash today. We can imagine that one day, based on the same model, people can come to get their medical examination in a kind of technology hub,” said Abdeldjallil Naceri, 43, the lead scientist of the lab. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: eussr; fourthreich; germany; robots
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1 posted on 03/22/2023 4:48:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Filthy robots....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UxZJ9owXY

I am a Luddite. Not guilty of the tech fetishism rampant in this corrupt society.


2 posted on 03/22/2023 4:54:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Olog-hai

Why don’t they invite their hero Saint George Washington Zelensky to lay his holy hands on the German elderly. His saintliness would cure them in an instant.


3 posted on 03/22/2023 4:55:10 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is what socialism and “free” healthcare gets you.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 4:56:06 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Olog-hai
Medical robots? Well, when it comes to programming it’s garbage in, garbage out.


5 posted on 03/22/2023 4:56:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Big Hero 6 was fu

… as a movie


6 posted on 03/22/2023 4:57:55 PM PDT by combat_boots ( )
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To: Leaning Right

I want a robot that gives massages without dismembering me.


7 posted on 03/22/2023 4:58:16 PM PDT by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: Olog-hai

Lovely. /s


8 posted on 03/22/2023 5:01:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Olog-hai

“We can imagine that one day, based on the same model, people can come to get their medical examination in a kind of technology hub,”


My physiology prof predicted essentially the same thing in 1969. His concept was of a vending machine-type device that would analyze fluids, etc, run diagnostics, and issue prescriptions (or even meds) along with health advice.


9 posted on 03/22/2023 5:02:28 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Olog-hai

So after all the migrants poured into Germany, now there are no health care workers. Diversity wins again. Not.


10 posted on 03/22/2023 5:02:50 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Why are some people compelled to bring up that man’s name in every post that isn’t about him?


11 posted on 03/22/2023 5:03:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Open the closet door, Hal. Hal, I’m stuck in the closet and it locked somehow. Hal!!


12 posted on 03/22/2023 5:03:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: Skywise

I’m 78, on Medicare of course. Given the execrable health care I get from humans, I’d welcome this robot.


13 posted on 03/22/2023 5:06:04 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Olog-hai

Wir sind die Roboter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hoa9tXnZX8


14 posted on 03/22/2023 5:09:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai
"Why are some people compelled to bring up that man’s name in every post that isn’t about him?"

Well, Germany could afford human health care workers if they were not throwing their economy down the toilet for the Ukraine and Saint George Washington Zelensky. Hell, Germany might be able to afford real people to take care of their elderly if they didn't allow the United States blow up the Nordstream pipeline which gave them cheaper energy then they can get from American LNG. Germany is full of bend-over, candy-arsed cucks.

15 posted on 03/22/2023 5:11:24 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: oldasrocks
"I want a robot that gives massages that have a happy ending without dismembering me."

Fixed it for you ;)

16 posted on 03/22/2023 5:14:13 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: Olog-hai

How long until Larry Niven’s autodoc?


17 posted on 03/22/2023 5:14:22 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I’m younger but I agree the state of healthcare in this country is awful.


18 posted on 03/22/2023 5:16:33 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Olog-hai

How good are they at wiping asses?


19 posted on 03/22/2023 5:17:38 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Olog-hai

No doubt the unvaccinated elderly will be automatically vax’d right at the start, even at e.g. a routine checkup with no illness noted.


20 posted on 03/22/2023 5:18:58 PM PDT by givemELL
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