Robots in Healthcare: What the Future Holds

Neurotech@Berkeley
10 min readMay 10, 2021
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Consider a modern twist on the Trolley Problem which refers to a series of thought experiments first introduced in the 1960s. You see a baby in the path of a runaway trolley rushing down a slope. You can pull a lever that would change the direction of the trolley to hit a robot instead. The catch is that the baby has been manufactured in a lab through artificially programmed DNA while the robot is a

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