The first time I heard a hospital executive talk about investing in robots, I’ll admit, I was skeptical. It felt flashy — like a shiny gadget, more marketing spin than meaningful change. But then I started listening to the stories of staff. I heard about a nurse whose knees had given out after years of […]

There’s a moment I think about often — a quiet conversation I had with an older gentleman in a rehab center. He’d suffered a stroke a few months before, and while he’d made impressive progress, his biggest struggle was confidence. He told me, “I feel like I’m a burden. Every time someone helps me stand

When I first started learning about medical robotics, I had the same reaction a lot of people have: a knot in my stomach. Robots? In a hospital? That sounds cold. Like many of us, I pictured sterile, impersonal machines, beeping and whirring, standing between patients and the humans they trust. I worried that technology would

When people hear “medical robots,” they often picture some enormous, million-dollar machine whirring away in a giant operating theater. It sounds impressive — but also intimidating. I get it. Especially if you’re running a smaller clinic or community care center, the idea of bringing in robots can feel, well, a bit over the top. I’ve

There’s a moment I’ll never forget. A nurse, whom I’d known for years, stood in the hallway of a busy hospital with tears in her eyes. She wasn’t crying over a tragic patient story, though there were plenty of those. She was crying because she was exhausted — physically, mentally, emotionally. She’d been hauling supplies