GE's Hospital 'Bot Will Sort Scalpels, Sterilize Tools, And Prep Operating Rooms For Surgery

An automated OR 'bot could eliminate human errors in sterilization and pre-op preparations that cost lots of money--and sometimes cost lives. It may not seem like it, but a huge portion of a hospital's budget can get swallowed up by its surgical theaters--not in the operations themselves even, but in the prep and recovery of sterile operating environments. And, of course, in costs attributed to mistakes or oversights in the sterilization and prep of those operating environments (infections acqui...