Keiko Talking Robot Helps Medical Students
November 12th, 2008
Gifu University’s Graduate School of Medicine in central Japan now has a new “sick” robot, geared towards medical students.
Keiko, which means ”practice” in Japanese, can answer questions like “How are you doing?”, by saying things like “I get tired easily lately”. The bot will be a great help for medical students practicing conversations with patients.
Keiko can also be used for examinations by touch, before doing the same with human beings, so students are better prepared to touch real patients. Keiko is specifically designed for training neurological disorders so that medical students can learn the ways brain and nervous system illnesses can be identified.
