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        <title><![CDATA[RE: How robots could run and walk like animals and humans]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-2670-25164]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I can speak from experience when I say most doctors these days are little more than pill-pushers and few have or will take the time to communicate with you well enough to understand what you feel and what your assessment of your problem is. Three years ago when i had to spend some time in a hospital I would have been far better off with a robot for my room care than i was with the medical staff. I agree that robots are inevitable and as time goes on they'll get better and better. So what if they don't have human compassion or &quot;feelings.&quot; What we have are just programmed responses that will someday be programmed into a robot which will then cease to be a robot and become an andriod. I hope they build them with and easily accessible on-of switch, LOL.OldBill]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbilll]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:02:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: How robots could run and walk like animals and humans]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[YES!Here are a few of the reasons, I want a robot taking care of me,in the nursing home for the elderly:1. Robotic nurses aids will most likely be SOBER; have the time, patients, and the expertise to DO IT RIGHT.2. A robotic nurses aid will probably not decide to steal my laptop, off my lap, as I sleep.3. A robotic nurses aid will be less likely to share with me, the shingles contamination from their previous patient, or the flu from the one before that.4. The robotic nurses aid will probably not find me sexually attractive, and decide that raping me will be very satisfying,for both of us.Now. . . is when a compassionate and caring mechanical companion in my home could be appreciated.Robotic practitioners could easily eliminate most ignorant labor. Prostitutes will have to be retrained, because of the speed with which robots will be able to learn that, so many willing teachers.Imaginations will help give the new robotic practitioners a chance.Presently, I have a cat that helps to keep me company, but the language barrier is rather difficult for me, as cats are telepathic.b9f8Snipped from above:ddferrari&quot;Nooo...It could never be as good as a real person. Ever.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[net2j@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:14:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't think I've had a doctor that is much better than a robot.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Also 90% of the time that I've been to the doctor (which is probably only around 10 times) I've merely told him my symptoms and he prescribed me a drug. There are computer programs that are better than most doctors at matching the symptoms to the actual cause, but they are not used, to my understanding, because then if someone got seriously ill or died, who would you sue? These are ridiculous issues, but they exist anyways. I think robotic practitioners could easily be better than most doctors, as sad as the case may be.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[shadfurman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:09:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are you a Luddite?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ddferrari, you obviously don't work in a healthcare environment.  I do, and see reports of injured nurses and aids all the time.  Number one injury is muscular-skeletal injuries do to bad lifting of patients, or while trying to stop/guide them from falling.  Give nurses a robot able to get a patient from a wheel chair to a bed and back, or to assist them to the toilet, or up and down the hall and you'll make them your slaves for life.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr_Zinj]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:39:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: How robots could run and walk like animals and humans]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-2670-17204]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who would want a robot to assist a human nurse or doctor? Who would want a computer to assist a human nurse or doctor? The latter question was asked not too long ago. Now we ask, who would want to take valuable computer based tools away from nurses and doctors? Not too long from now we will have become just as accustomed to robotics, which will allow nurses and doctors to spend their time and energy doing what the robots cannot do, just as computers (when implemented well) save time on paperwork, increase accuracy and patient safety, and help doctors with diagnostics, tracking and other tasks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gardoglee]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:32:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[re: ddferrari comments - I don't know when the last time you were in the hospital ??? -  when was the last time you saw a doctor or nurse or anyone else in the EVIL medical industry act  - &quot;kind, compassionate and caring???&quot; and warm?? LOL The medical industry is the one's that are eerie, and TRULY soulless machines.I would prefer a logical machine to an 'OOPS Human doctor' who says  &quot;oh well can win them all, there goes another medical bill we can't charge them because the have EXPIRED&quot; Please get in the real world and understand their purpose and goals. MONEY is the root of all evil and the medical industry is the MOST evil ever known to mankind so STOP Paying them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[nehockc]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:19:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Human doctors and nurses find it too difficult and damaging to be washing their hands and changing gloves all of the time.  The nurse types on the computer keyboard and germs are picked up.  The doctor touches the chart at the foot of the bed and germs are transferred.  MRSA caught in a hospital killed my mother and hundreds of thousands of other humans.  We need robots to take over these jobs and we need them now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Humbot]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Robot Age is coming. There's no way around it. There is too much need for them. Although the need for these robots is critical in aiding the human populous in the health field, etc., I am looking forward to the time when there are robots who do more than vacuum rugs.This may sound frivilous to most, but when you're a handicapped individual and cannot afford outside human assistance, I'll take a mechanical assistant anytime.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[clancy123]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:21:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'll take a robot Nurse 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.  It would be wonderful if all people were programmed in this world for compassion, understanding and even warm civility, but, it just is not the case. Quite the opposite acutally.  The robot won't tire out, will be ever vigilant, can and will be programmed to respond to needs in a seemingly compassionate and caring manner.  Cover the 'bot with a furry &quot;critter&quot; suit and watch how pedatric patients respond, as they do already, with less sophisticated robotic cousins, and small, fluffy animals already utilized in some facilities.  Why shouldn't we use robots as helpers in dangerous and demanding situations?   The arrival of the robot age is inevitable, if not timely. Short sighted luddite biogtry helps no one, and is ultimately hurtful to patients, doctors and nursing staff that are already using multiple cybernetic aids.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bmeyers@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:46:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Smart Planet, dumb readers.  Home robots went on sale in Japan 5 years ago.  The US, on the other hand, has become accustomed to an infinite supply of immigrant labor to service an aging population.  It's interesting to see why Big Dog is ahead of its time.  Had assumed it was part of the Future Combat Systems mess.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hoodedswan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:53:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nooo...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I DON'T want a robot in my home, And I ABSOLUTELY don't want a robot taking care of me in a hospital! Are you nuts? Why would I want the kind, compassionate care of a doctor or nurse replaced with an eerie, soulless machine? What possible advantage- other than the &quot;savings&quot; of not providing the robot a paycheck or benefits- would be realized by replacing a human with a robot? It could never be as good as a real person. Ever.In hazardous situations, I can understand the potential, but in a hospital, where people need the reassurance and warmth of those who care? Laughable. And sad.Hurst- you're just another scientist who seems to be completely smitten with technology and totally inept when it comes to humanity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ddferrari]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:21:19 -0700</pubDate>
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