Healthcare Futures Workshop

• defining a robot is difficult.
• there is no singular care receiver - many different stereotypical uses (problematic), many different value systems.
• if robots are defined by tasks they can accomplish, in which ways do their performance excel over humans?

DIY robotics

• medical care
• diy robot surgery
• diy robot _______
• diy diet machine food printer
• diy medication printer / chemputer / molecular spectrometer - selling rights to print drugs
• diy massage robot

thoughts

• NPC-equivalent in our real world
  • Free-roaming bots which cause small amounts of chaos - in far away/rural areas
  • robots which endear by being mostly right but sometimes mischievously wrong.
  • Unplugging cables so a human must come in to fix things

• robots which go around earning love credits where they can
  • how to measure connections made? not about quantity though
  • more about the quality of one or two relationships
  • if something runs only for the duration that the user is alive. if its energy source is tied together to the user.

• what if a robot was expected to relay messages but it didn’t send to the right person - performing robot messengers. they sing out a message. performing in the style of someone.