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.

[Crunchgear]

As far as medical dummies go, iStan is pretty smart. He just wants you to think he’s stupid laying there all dummy-like. This isn’t your granddads CPR dolly. Advanced dummies like the iStan make sure that emergency workers get their practice in on him, not you. Which is fortunate for you.

iStan mimics a live patient in all the ways that count in the medical field. Often those who perform CPR for the first time are surprised at how firm the chest is, as you’ll be pushing down against the sternum. The iStan will give plenty of resistance with it’s full skeleton, lungs and a simulated nervous system. He can also simulate a wide variety of problems, anything from bladder complications to life-threatening conditions. To top it all off iStan is controlled wirelessly and operates without a tether, which helps creates the illusion that it’s a real, breathing person. So if you get your life saved by some kind human, you might want to thank iStan.

[Dvice]