Abstract
So are robots the future of healthcare? At least for routine tasks, it looks as if they are likely to become common in healthcare settings. As machine learning expert Anthony Goldbloom recently argued, robots are well-suited to absorbing a large number of examples or books on a subject and applying that knowledge to a situation. Often with more precision than a human, they can navigate obstacles, perform repetitive tasks to a specification, identify and remember patterns and be designed to go places where humans cannot. Although their appearances and behaviours may eventually become indistinguishable from those of humans, some believe they will always lack the human ability to think creatively and 'out of the box.' In the healthcare context, this raises the question of whether robots will ever be able to truly replace caregivers - will they be able to empathise with a patient or be able to identify environmental causes for disease? Such questions remain to be answered, but the scope for mobile service robots is certainly an area to keep an eye on.
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