The
world shortage of physicians to accurately treat disease may be logical filled
one day by low-cost robotic diagnostic doctors with memory banks of every
disease and symptom known to man. With terabyte SD cards on the horizon
building 1000 terabyte robot memory for low cost can be foreseen. The field of
manufacturing robotic physicians to diagnose illness with a built in synthetic
tool kit of imaging and chemical analysis devices and software for interpretation
is logical as well.
One
would think that the National Institute of Health could provide a project
paradigm for development of the ideal robotic doctor to lead capitalism to
radically lower the cost of quality medical care for the billions. Obviously one might worry about making the
beast’s image and consider planting a self-destruct circuit in the robotic
doctor if it goes to the dark side of the force-yet I think that the prophesied
Evil Leader would find some other vehicle for its rep to appear in. So,
returning to the cheaper medical care project…
Dr.
Robots able to walk the walk and talk the talk might be able to be trained to
illegibly scrawl prescriptions too. Dr. Bots would have a good patient
communication lexicon and deductive language reasoning capability to ask and
understand any foreseeable human response to probing questions such as does it hurt?
There
may be a primary difference between diagnostic Dr. Bots and Dr. Fix--all bots. Obviously
some entrepreneurs would seek to package diagnostic and treatment bots together
one day in competition one-upsmanship. Some surgeries could be performed by
programmable robotic platforms with built in surgical procedures data
banks in field clinics while others
might need to be established in permanent treatment facilities although
modularizing Dr. Bots Surgeons on hovercraft for location to roadless areas
might be useful. They should all have solar recharging capability for powering
up as well as fuel cells.
While
it is true that human volunteer networks to examine breasts are easy to
innovate, checking human health through vaginal or anal data-ports is more of a
problem. One can imagine robotic probes with smaller, non-invasive diagnostic
imaging tools able to more accurately interpret infrared imaging and perform
chemical and biological analysis from a comprehensively broad spectrum of the
human eco-complex. A Dr. Bot alien probe should be able to provide one’s
genetic ancestry as routinely as making a blood survey.
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