robodoc
English
Noun
robodoc (plural robodocs)
- (science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.
- 2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos (page 64)
- Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous.
- 2013, Gary Caplan, The Phoenix Rising
- Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.
- 2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos (page 64)
- A telesurgeon.
- 2005, Vladimir B. Bajić, Tin Wee Tan, Information Processing and Living Systems (page 471)
- Residency training of physicians thus dwindles to the production of a new breed of "robotized" physicians — robodocs — that practice exclusively rule-based reasoning with the help of a digital computer and invisible experts.
- 2005, Vladimir B. Bajić, Tin Wee Tan, Information Processing and Living Systems (page 471)
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