There’s a longstanding nursing shortage in the U.S. that's only expected to get worse. Some hospitals have experimented with robotic nursing assistants to lighten the load, like a model known as Moxi that rolled out in 2019.They’re kind of R2D2-meets-Rosie-the-robots and were designed to handle non-patient-facing tasks like transporting lab samples.But many hospitals eventually pulled them from operation.Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Varsha Bansal, reporter at Proof News, about what went wrong.More on thisMeet the Robot That Nurses Unplugged - from Proof News
Hospitals pull back on robotic nursing assistants
Varshal Bansal, reporter at Proof News, discusses the nursing robot “Moxi” and why hospital networks stopped using them after they were rolled out in 2019.







