Will Nurse Grace cheer patients up or scare them away?

"Empathetic, affable, visually unthreatening and coolly competent in several healthcare tasks, a newly trained nurse named Grace has made a head-turning debut.

She’s also making the headlines.

That’s because Grace is a robot. She’s equipped with AI for diagnosing health problems and a thermal camera for taking temperatures.

Unveiled by Hanson Robotics June 8, Grace and her robotic “clones” may soon be assigned to relieving overworked hospital staff on the front lines of pandemic responses and other shift-stretching challenges.

Hanson founder David Hanson tells Reuters news service the tirelessly cheerful Grace can simulate the movements of around 50 facial muscles, speaks English as well as Mandarin and Cantonese, and is styled after gentle and appealing anime characters..." Lire la suite