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Scottish Hospital Introduces Robot Porters - TopNews United States

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 06:45 AM PDT

How about whatever we read in the science fictions, become a real fact in front of our eyes? That's exactly what Forth Valley Royal Hospital is on the brink of doing. It'll be the first hospital in the UK, which will exhibit a flotilla of automatons for cleaning, disseminating medicines and food, and to pick up the clinical waste.

A separate set-up of corridors will be arranged for these automatic janitors, underneath the hospital, on which they'll commute, and if anything is on the way or they are required to stop, then the board sensors will be doing this job.

These robots have been employed in the hospital with an aim to free up some time for the staff, so that they can spend it more with the patients. Otherwise, they are not there to replace the staff, rather they'll comfort them by taking dirty jobs, helping staff not to complaint and perform unhygienic works.

NHS Forth Valley Spokesman, Elspeth Campbell said, "The new system would help with infection control. Staff is very pleased. It is exciting to be the first in the UK to do this. We know they work well in other hospitals elsewhere in the world. While it is new, we aren't nervous because we know it is a system that works well".

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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit hosts 'Urban Farming: Fiction, Fable and the Facts ... - MLive.com

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:22 AM PDT

Published: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:15 AM Updated: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 7:37 AM

Urban agriculture is the subject of a discussion at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Thursday's event "Urban Farming: Fiction, Fable and the Facts" is being presented by the museum and the Detroit Agriculture Network. Organizers say the aim is to look beneath "romantic fictions" about urban farming.

A number of people involved in community gardening in Detroit are expected to be a part of the discussion, including representatives of Earthworks Urban Farm, the Greening of Detroit and the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.

In Detroit, residents are increasingly working to transform vacant, often-blighted land into gardens and small farms.

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Senin, 21 Juni 2010