Robotic ‘finger’ could perform your next intimate physical exam

https://newatlas.com/robotics/ultrasensitive-robotic-finger-medical-examination/

39 Comments

  1. I’ll take the doctor thanks. FAR more pleasurable.

    Rather, we are far from robots with tactile sensitivity of a finger.

  2. Delicious-Advance120 on

    Now if only someone can invent a viable, just-as-effective alternative to typical prostate exams…

  3. Funny story

    I was getting my “full physical” before going in the Canadian military as a chaplain (pastor/priest/social worker).

    My wife and I had the same family doctor. She was a fairly new doctor and a strong Catholic.

    In the “small talk” while doing the prostate exam she asked me what I did for a living.

    I told her.

    she was traumatized and said in a loud, shocked voice.

    #”I’ve never done this to a priest before”

    I broke out laughing at her trauma.
    So many things came to mind for me to say, but I managed to stay mostly quiet.

  4. thePsychonautDad on

    I didn’t think we’d get fingered by robots within my lifetime, but here we are…

  5. This is too funny,
    Man I needed a good laugh this morning
    Can you just imagine going in for your physical and the doctor tells you it’s time for your prostate exam and they introduce you Dexter the robot finger, you pan to look and the finger does a little twitch to say hello and all you can think of is Christopher Walken say something about that’s gonna go up your ass. Hahahahaha
    Consider while Dexter is doing the business, they tell you, “oh it’s in the wrong position we gotta take Dexter out and re insert, you might feel a little pressure,”
    I wonder if they will give me a cigarette at the end of the appointment hahahahaha
    The best part the bill will probably be not even slightly discounted because I was digitally manipulated by a robot named Dexter than an actual doctor. Hahahaha

  6. -QueenAnnesRevenge- on

    Jokes aside, if this is for a prostate exam my Dr won’t do the finger check. He prefers the blood test as it’s more accurate now.

  7. You know, my urologist is a women and she has really slender fingers. I think i will just keep going to her.

  8. I dunno, I guess I’m old and used to the exams but this seems creepier than the fingers. It reminds me of those movies Existenze and Videodrome…

  9. Always remember, one major motivation for technological advancement is the question “Can you have sex with it?”

  10. Prudent-Employee-334 on

    Why does the base look like it’s going to be static? As in bolted to a wall? That is going to be way more awful, I’ll take the doctor I ain’t backing up into the wall finger like I have bills to pay

  11. Ghostbuster_119 on

    I think I’d rather me and a doctor both share a brief moment of shame than let R2 Me2 probe me.