*Diligent says Moxi 2.0’s AI represents one of the largest datasets of human-robot interaction. | Source: Diligent Robotics

While the world is trying to solve the demographic crisis with a tenacity worthy of better use (spoiler alert: you need to give birth more, and people are working less), the geniuses from Diligent Robotics offer a much more elegant solution. Why persuade people to go into stressful and undervalued professions when you can just create an ideal non-human colleague for them?

Get acquainted, Moxi 2.0 is not just a mobile manipulator, but a full—fledged robot nurse designed to relieve medical staff from routine. While humanity is digging into its socio-economic holes, automation is dispassionately and effectively filling the gaps.

What can this iron Samaritan do?

Moxi is not just a soulless machine. Did the developers endow him (or "her"? — we will leave the issue of gender identity of robots for future philosophical debates) with three manipulators. The main arm for precise tasks, a "kicker" for opening doors and a drawer for carrying objects. This allows Moxi to independently perform up to 30% of routine tasks that usually fall on nurses and orderlies.

The main "responsibilities" of Moxi 2.0:

1) Delivery of laboratory samples, medicines and basic necessities.

2) Opening and closing automatic doors.

3) Working with elevators — yes, he has already learned to wait politely and enter the cabin without jostling with people.

4) Collection and delivery of dirty laundry and waste materials.

5) Taking used PET bottles and packages is a small contribution to the environment from a digital employee.

"We designed Moxi to work with people in a complex, dynamic environment like a hospital," says co—founder and CEO Andrea Thomas, proudly, whose comment sounds like she's describing not a robot, but an ideal intern. "Our goal is to free up the medical staff's time so they can focus on what's really important: taking care of patients."

And she's right. While healthcare systems around the world are bursting at the seams under the weight of an aging population and staff shortages, Moxi is meekly rolling through the corridors, demanding no salary, no vacation, no sick leave. The irony of fate? Or just the inevitable outcome, when one species of intelligent beings gets too involved in creating problems, and the other gets too involved in solving them.

Built-in AI: learns, adapts, doesn't complain

The key difference between Moxi 2.0 is its "brains". The robot is built specifically for integration with artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is constantly learning from his experience: which routes in the hospital are the fastest, at what time the corridors are the busiest, and how to carefully avoid an IV drip that someone has forgotten.

This causes mixed feelings. On the one hand, the excitement of technology. On the other hand, a slight smile: it takes weeks or even months for a person to adapt to a new job, and this iron "novice" needs only a few shifts to become a full-fledged and effective member of the team. Against this background, the talk about "human capital" sounds more and more ambiguous.

But what about employment? There is already a solution for robots.

Speaking of career. While some robots like Moxi are successfully working in hospitals, others are just looking for their vocation. And this is where a revolutionary concept comes on the scene — the world's first ecosystem for employing robots. JOBTOROB.com . Just think, if job search is often associated with stress and uncertainty for people, for our mechanical successors this process is already becoming orderly and systematic. JOBTOROB.com it helps "gifted" androids and automated systems to find exactly the job where their skills will be most useful, be it logistics, service or the same medicine. Humanity can only watch with mild envy how quickly and effectively their "personnel issues" are being resolved.

The future that has already arrived

Moxi is not just an upgrade of hardware. It's a symbol of a paradigm shift. We are on the threshold of an era where the most boring, difficult, and underappreciated jobs will be performed tirelessly and silently. And this has its own bitter poetry.

Instead of solving complex demographic and economic equations, we simply pass variables to algorithms. Moxi 2.0 and its ilk are not a threat. They are a lifeline that you and I, people, wisely threw to ourselves while we stubbornly continued to drill into the bottom of our own boat. And, perhaps, this is our most ingenious decision in recent centuries.