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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Not soon enough. Niven's autodoc could reconstitute you from a slurry of cells, as long as there was an intact brain.
Slurry of cells, that’s me. As far as the intact brain part is concerned, it may already be too late.
What a choice: a robot or an illegal alien nurse who will empty your bank account.
Can the robot say,
“Turn your head and cough” in German?
“Vee Haf Vays of Making You Cough!”
All bad things start in Germany. It will soon be here in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM
That’s a very disjointed response, with all due respect.
I did not post this thread to discuss Zelensky, certainly. Or Germany’s foreign policy, which is against him anyhow.
And AI says its time to go.
My reply is only as disjointed as the world is.
You cannot be the only Freeper that has noticed a change on the forum as things have heated up. I am only fighting the flack from the common enemy that cares not one bit about either of us...
We live in interesting times and, if we cannot adapt, we will perish.
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