CNN: Robotic patients help train doctors

Wednesday, September 28, 2005; Posted: 9:59 a.m. EDT (13:59 GMT)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -- Faced with a growing number of medical students and few training hospitals, a Mexican university is turning to robotic patients to better train future doctors.

Mexico City's UNAM University has opened the world's largest "robotic hospital" -- where medical students practice on everything from delivering a baby from a robotic dummy to injecting the arm of a plastic toddler.

The robots are dummies complete with mechanical organs, synthetic blood and mechanical breathing systems. More...