robodoc

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English

Etymology

From 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.