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Could AI nursing robots help health care staffing shortages? https://lnkd.in/gJUGDCPu The autonomous, AI-powered nursing robot is designed to help nurses with repetitive or physically demanding tasks, such as delivering medication or guiding patients around the ward. According to Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational behind Nurabot, the humanoid can reduce nurses’ workload by up to 30%. This is not a replacement of nurses, but more like accomplishing a mission together. 『AI搭載 協働看護ロボット』 投薬、検体搬送、病棟巡回など病院内での様々な作業を行い、看護師の負担軽減を図る。 https://lnkd.in/g6DPZxQT #healthcare #LifeScience #Nurabot #nursing #robot #PhysicalAI #agenticAI #Isaac #Omniverse #NVIDIA

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AI nursing robots might help with staffing shortages, but they also raise questions about how care should really be delivered https://lnkd.in/gdD3tdBD

Uncanny Valley Concept in Robotics and Nursing Care Future in Healthcare Settings When robots are designed to help in nursing care — like assisting patients, reminding them about medications, or providing companionship — their appearance and behavior matter a lot. 🤖 If the robot looks very machine-like (like a simple device or cartoon-like design), patients usually feel comfortable because they clearly know it’s not human. 🧑🤖 If the robot looks almost human but not perfect — for example, a robot nurse with realistic skin, blinking eyes, and speech but slightly unnatural facial expressions or stiff movements — patients may feel uneasy, anxious, or even scared. This is the uncanny valley effect. 👩⚕️ If the robot looked fully human-like and natural, then patients might accept it as trustworthy and supportive. But current technology often falls into that "in-between" zone that feels creepy. 👉 In nursing care, this means designers need to carefully balance robot design. Too human-like can backfire and make patients uncomfortable, especially vulnerable groups like children, elderly, or critically ill patients. Would you like me to also show you a real-world nursing robot example (like “Pepper” or “Paro the seal robot”) and explain whether they avoid or fall into the uncanny valley? #UncannyValley #FutureOfNursing #HealthcareInnovation #NursingRobotics #NursingFuture #AIandHealthcare #RobotNurse #MedicalTechnology #NursingEducation #PatientCare #NursingScience #NursingInnovation #DigitalNursing #CompassionateCare #AIinHealthcare #RoboticsInNursing #CareRobots #HumanRobotInteraction #HealthcareAI #RoboticsFuture #FutureOfHealthcare #HealthcareTrends #TechForGood #HumanCenteredAI #NextGenNursing

Lately I’ve been thinking about what’s happening in Taiwan with Nurabot—Foxconn & NVIDIA’s robot assistant for hospitals. It’s stepping in to help with routine, physically taxing tasks: delivering meds, ferrying samples, guiding visitors, doing the small things that pile up and burn out nursing teams. Now here’s where it gets interesting: you can automate the doing of caregiving tasks, but you can’t automate caring. A machine can bring pain meds, clean rooms, track vitals - but it can’t hold a hand, hear a fear, respond to a quiet concern, or offer empathy. Those are deeply human things. Without strong human nurses, caregivers, support staff, the tech becomes cold or shallow. Still, this feels like the right kind of future. If tools like Nurabot can reduce nurse workload by up to 30%, reduce fatigue, give staff more space and energy to focus on the human side of care, that’s huge. But success depends on keeping humans at the centre - values, compassion, presence - and remembering tech should relieve, not replace, the heart of caregiving.

https://lnkd.in/d7WVsUgi Quotes from the article: Around the world, health care workers are in short supply, with a shortage of 4.5 million nurses expected by 2030, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nurses are already feeling the pressure: around one-third of nurses globally are experiencing burnout symptoms, like emotional exhaustion, and the profession has a high turnover rate. That’s where Nurabot comes in. The autonomous, AI-powered nursing robot is designed to help nurses with repetitive or physically demanding tasks, such as delivering medication or guiding patients around the ward. According to Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational behind Nurabot, the humanoid can reduce nurses’ workload by up to 30%. “This is not a replacement of nurses, but more like accomplishing a mission together,” says Alice Lin, director of user design at Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Technology Group in Taiwan. By taking on repetitive tasks, Nurabot frees up nurses for “tasks that really need them, such as taking care of the patients and making judgment calls on the patient’s conditions, based on their professional experience,” Lin told CNN in a video call. Nurabot, which took just 10 months to develop, has been undergoing testing at a hospital in Taiwan since April 2025 — and now, the company is readying the robot for commercial launch early next year. Foxconn does not currently have an estimate for its retail price. Foxconn partnered with Japanese robotics company Kawasaki Heavy Industries to build Nurabot’s hardware. The firm adapted Kawasaki’s “Nyokkey” service robot model, which moves around autonomously on wheels, uses its two robotic arms to lift and hold items, and has multiple cameras and sensors to help it recognize its surroundings. Based on its initial research on nurses’ daily routines and pain points — such as walking long distances across the ward to deliver samples — Foxconn added features, like a space to safely store bottles and vials. The robot uses Foxconn’s Chinese large language model for its communication, while US tech giant NVIDIA provided Nurabot’s core AI and robotics infrastructure. NVIDIA says it combined multiple proprietary AI platforms to create Nurabot’s programming, which enables the bot to navigate the hospital independently, schedule tasks, and react to verbal and physical cues. AI was also used to train and test the robot in a virtual version of the hospital, which Foxconn says helped its speedy development. AI allows Nurabot to “perceive, reason, and act in a more human-like way” and adapt its behavior “based on the specific patient, context, and situation,” David Niewolny, director of business development for health care and medical at NVIDIA, told CNN in an email. #artificialintelligence #ai #generativeai #largelanguagemodels #chatbots #airevolution #aihype #aitools #aihealthcaretools #AIhealthassistants #AInurse #robots #robotics #therobotwillseeyounow #humanhealth #healthcare #foxconn