| "With
fewer and fewer young people and more and more elderly people, there won't be
enough young people to take care of the elderly," a spokesman said. "Therefore
we'll have to use robots for routine medical care." There
are already robots carrying parts in factories and robots operating in space and
at the bottom of the ocean, but robots have never done routine jobs in hospitals
before. Robonurse can carry and clear food trays in
hospitals and old people's homes. It can find its
way from bed to bed and has a screen to show patients what is on the menu. It
has a mechanical arm to lift and remove trays. The
designers hope that it will make it possible for nurses to concentrate more on
medical care than routine tasks. However, nobody seems
to have asked the old people about how they would feel about being served by a
robot instead of a person. How would you feel if your
lunch were delivered by a machine every day? | 
