Robo nurse, coming to a hospital near you?

Medical machinery has come a long way — and now robots are getting in on the action. Click on the video below to watch a robotic nurse bathe a bed-ridden patient autonomously.

It may move slow, but it seems to do the job. Healthcare Robotics, the company who makes the robot, reports its efficacy as such:

In our experiments, the robot removed most of the debris (>96%) on four parts of the limbs. In addition, the robot performed the wiping task using relatively low force.