研究人員制造了一種狗型機器人護士，可以遠程測量病人的生命體征

研究人員制造了一種狗型機器人護士，可以遠程測量病人的生命體征

Testing a patient for Covid-19 can be an unnerving experience for health care workers, but researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston are hoping to use robots to change that.

對一個病人進行Covid-19測試可能會讓醫(yī)護人員感到不安，但是來自麻省理工學院和波士頓布里格姆女子醫(yī)院的研究人員希望用機器人來改變這種狀況。

Operating robots with a handheld device, medical workers may soon be able to talk with patients about their symptoms while measuring vitals -- all from another room.

通過手持設備操作機器人，醫(yī)務人員可能很快就能在測量生命體征的同時，與病人談論他們的癥狀——所有這些都是在另一個房間里進行的。

The researchers have been using a robot on healthy volunteers and are making plans to use it to test people who show Covid-19 symptoms in a hospital setting, the university said in a news release.

該大學在一份新聞發(fā)布會上說，研究人員已經(jīng)在健康志愿者身上使用了一個機器人，并計劃用它來測試在醫(yī)院出現(xiàn)Covid-19癥狀的人。

"In robotics, one of our goals is to use automation and robotic technology to remove people from dangerous jobs," MIT postdoc Huang said. "We thought it should be possible for us to use a robot to remove the health care worker from the risk of directly exposing themselves to the patient."

“在機器人技術領域，我們的目標之一是利用自動化和機器人技術讓人們擺脫危險的工作，”麻省理工學院博士后黃先生說。“我們認為，我們應該有可能使用機器人來消除醫(yī)護人員直接接觸患者的風險。”

A tablet mounted to the "head" of Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot, allows communication with patients. The robot also is equipped with an infrared camera, along with three monochrome cameras that are capable of filtering different wavelengths of light.

波士頓動力公司的狗型機器人的“頭部”上安裝了一塊平板電腦，可以與患者進行交流。這款機器人還配備了一個紅外攝像頭，以及三個能夠過濾不同波長光的單色攝像頭。

These four cameras can measure skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation from as far as 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) away.

這四個攝像頭可以在6.5英尺(2米)遠的地方測量皮膚溫度、呼吸頻率、脈搏和血氧飽和度。

"We didn't really develop new technology to do the measurements," Huang says. "What we did is integrate them together to analyze different vital signs at the same time."

“我們并沒有真正開發(fā)新技術來進行測量，”黃說。“我們所做的是將它們整合在一起，同時分析不同的生命體征。”

The researchers expect to focus on triage applications in the short term, with the goal of ultimately deploying robots like this to patients' hospital rooms to continuously monitor them and let doctors to check in on them without ever having to step into the room.

研究人員希望在短期內(nèi)把重點放在分診應用上，最終的目標是將這樣的機器人配置到病人的病房里，對病人進行持續(xù)的監(jiān)控，并讓醫(yī)生在不需要進入病房的情況下進行檢查。