July 31, 2013

WOULD YOU LET THE VEEBOT ROBOT TAKE YOUR BLOOD?

Veebot is a particularly gory robot. He takes your blood--not like a circuit-board Nosferatu might--instead, Veebot's Mountain View-based creators are hoping he might head up the next generation ofphlebotomists. The machine currently has an 83% accuracy rate and has to get to 90% before undergoing clinical trials, but as the firm points out, between a quarter and one-fifth of all blood tests fail at the first attempt, so Veebot is doing better than the average. Eww. http://m.fastcompany.com/3015013/fast-feed/would-you-let-the-veebot-robot-take-your-blood

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