Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers by using robots such as Spot to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. Source: Image courtesy of the researchers, MIT News
During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a healthcare worker’s job is assessing people who have symptoms of COVID-19. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they hope to reduce that risk by using robots to remotely measure patients’ vital signs.
