By Evan Ackerman
Wired posted a gallery on Friday of surgical robots, and Bloodbot here caught my eye, largely because it seemed to be the most practical. The robot consists of an arm with a needle and a probe. In order to find an accessible vein, the robot probes around your arm until it finds an area of flesh that’s a little bit less squishy than the rest. Then it jabs you with a needle, and when it feels a little pop indicating that it’s punched through into a vein, it knows to cease the jabbage, lest it go right through the other side of your vein, out the back of your arm, and into your femoral artery, causing a large amount of hemorrhaging that’ll no doubt kill you in minutes.
So far, the robot is accurate about 78% of the time…
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