The Sci-Fi Short “Dr. Easy” is entertaining. But like other Sci-Fi we enjoy highlighting here it is also thought provoking. Watching this is great for helping inspire thoughts about the future or robotics. In this case it shows what a potential medical robot can do to help in an emergency response.
It is certainly true that we need to be on the look out for ways that robots will disrupt our labor market and many jobs will be threatened in the future (see: Get Ready Now For The Jobs Of The Future). But it is also true that there are jobs humans do right now that robots are better suited for. The one depicted here is one of those.
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