Hi. I'm Nurse RR. How May I Hurt You?

This is RIBA.  She/He is a Japanese nurse/robot/teddy bear (so cute!), who was invented to help ease the nursing shortage in Japan.  RIBA, which stands for “Robot for Interactive Body Assistance”, can help nurses by lifting patients up to 135 pounds, out of their beds, off toilets and into wheelchairs, etc.

My guess is that nurses in the great United States don’t worry too much about moving patients who only weigh 135 pounds.  Don’t think RIBA would be hired here in America.  I know what you’re thinking.  Nurse RR is a robot-hater.  Nurse RR needs some cultural sensitivity training.  Nurse RR needs to stop wathcing the Terminator.  Yeah, whatever.

How would you like that thing coming at you in the dark at 2am to lift you off a toilet?  ……shudder…..I mean really, think about it.  It is a GIANT robot nurse teddy bear, with arms that look like semi-automatic weapons and a weird bear smile that says “do as I say earthling.”  The bear/nurse/robot has an abnormally large chest wall and “dead-behind- the-eyes” gaze.  The ears are kinda cute though.  But still!  This is creepy.  The robot/nurse/bear thing has it’s joints adhered together with painter’s tape.  That aint right.

I am going on the record to say I hate this robot/bear/nurse thingy.  It is creepy, and I will refuse to interview it for a job.  I don’t care if it is a member of the union or not.  Go away now.

RR