Robots receive hospital patients

ostend - Patients and visitors to two hospitals in Belgium are called similar welcome from Monday. The humanoid machines of 1 meter 40 high staff at the reception desk.

A world first for the medical sector, the company behind the humanoid robots. The two hospitals in Ostend and Liège, already use more robots in the elderly and the children and rehabilitation departments. They are for example used to guide children to operating rooms.

The 'reception robots, called Pepper, be larger, more mobile and specially designed to receive patients. The Pepper robots are already being tested in stores in Japan and France, but for the first time used in a medical environment, said the robot company from Ostend. The company has developed even robots for example hotel counters.
  
    
     
      
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