robodoc

robodoc

English

Etymology

robo- +‎ doc

Noun

robodoc (plural robodocs)

1. (science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.
   • 2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos (page 64)

     Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous.

   • 2013, Gary Caplan, The Phoenix Rising

     Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.

2. A telesurgeon.
   • 2005, Vladimir B. Bajić, ‎Tin Wee Tan, Information Processing and Living Systems (page 471)

     Residency training of physicians thus dwindles to the production of a new breed of "robotized" physicians — robodocs — that practice exclusively rule-based reasoning with the help of a digital computer and invisible experts.