Now we learn that the University of Louisville (UofL) is teaming with Owensboro Medical Health System to enlist R2-D2 — well really, his cousin, RP-7 — to help bring better health care to outlying areas of Central and Western Kentucky.
“The robot is an invaluable physician tool,” said Kerri Remmel, director of University Hospital Stroke Center and interim chair of UofL’s department of neurology.
Through the robot, a doctor can interact and converse with a patient, patient’s family, physician or nurse through a live, two-way audio and video connection. Using a joystick, camera and 360-degree infrared sensors, the . . . doctor can maneuver the robot through the hospital to a patient’s bedside and move the robot’s head to see vital signs on monitors and charts.
This may be progress. But the real questions is whether it has a iPod connection and gets YouTube.
