"A new face is lighting up hospitals and nursing homes across the country. It's an animated, cartoonish persona displayed on a digital screen roughly the size of an iPad, mounted on top of a robotic torso shaped like an elongated traffic cone. It slowly rolls around from place to place, cracking jokes with patients, making silly faces, and playing small games."
"Designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl, the therapeutic robot is the latest example of how AI models are making their way into medical applications. Some hospitals are using AI to triage patients, including by having a chatbot interview them before they start a virtual telehealth appointment. Doctors are also using AI tools to transcribe medical visits and help diagnose patients. In each of these applications, the tech has shown it can go horribly wrong."
Robin the Robot is an animated, childlike therapeutic robot mounted on a mobile torso and displays a cartoon persona on a tablet-sized screen. The robot behaves and sounds like a seven-year-old, rolling through hospital corridors, telling jokes, making silly faces, and playing small games to comfort patients. Robin aims to offer companionship and comfort to children and older adults using proprietary CompassionateAI designed to address unique needs and to form meaningful, enduring relationships. Hospitals also use AI for triage, chatbot interviews, visit transcription, and diagnostic assistance, though those clinical applications have sometimes produced harmful outcomes. Some people, especially children, have experienced delusions or mental crises after forming close relationships with chatbots.
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