Robotic Nurse of the Future"> Robotic Nurse of the Future

Remember the 1987 movie Wall Street? Bill and I loved it for the fact that Michael Douglas places a cell phone call using one of those HUGE walkie-talkie Motorola bricks that were state of the art back in the day. We also loved the green text-only monitors, (back when you could choose from green, off -white and amber as your screen font color,) but what we overloooked until today was the cocktail serving robot at the Gordon’s Hamptons beach house. That was the future, after all.

Well, time has marched on. According to a Greenville hosipital, they have dispatched a robotic nurse named EMMA short for Electronic Materials Management Associate (Isn’t that like sanitation engineer? –Bill) due to a shortage of staff. According to the hospital, “She may not be the sexiest nurse around, but EMMA delivers the goods (such as pharmaceutical supplies, meals, lab samples, supplies, etc) throughout the hospital (including elevator rides) while politely informing people when they are obstructing her duties. 24 hours a day.”

(Two things: One, nothing like that is going to give me a sponge bath. Two, anyone who’s seen Runaway already knows what the future with this sort of thing would be like. -Bill)