Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Rise of The Robot Phlebotomists

It's a robot designed to draw blood from people, or scare the Goth out of needlephobes, and created by the Imperial College (London).
Bloodbot How does it work?  According to Wired, the nightmare-inducing machine presses a probe against the surface tissue and measures the force on the probe. The pressure difference across the area indicates the presence of a vein. Once the Bloodbot finds a vein it inserts a needle and draws the blood. The system is sophisticated and precise enough to ensure that it doesn’t insert the needle too far into the vein or overshoot the vein.

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Rise of the robot phlebotomists - Infocult: Uncanny Informatics























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