At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the nurse assistant stopped by a patient’s room to pick up some lab samples while dropping off toiletries. Then, as the helper’s pixilated blue eyes flashed a heart sign to indicate the task had been completed, it summoned an elevator and quietly rolled off to the hospital’s supply room to carry on with its next mission.
Meet Moxi, a robot that is helping medical staff at Cedars-Sinai and roughly two dozen other hospitals around the U.S.
“I don’t have to go take my 10,000 steps down into the belly of the hospital to go find things and get it for my patient,” Melanie Barone, an associate director at Cedars-Sinai, told CBS News.
“Robots are no longer so sci-fi,” Barclays analyst Zornitsa Todorova said recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Moxi saves hospital staff time and helps them focus on patient care, according to
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