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We've certainly seen our fair share of robotic surgeons, nursebots, and robopharmacists around here, but what happens when it's the robots themselves that need a little medical attention? Why you ship them off to Osaka, Japan's Akazawa Roboclinic, of course. Although some people might write off the recently-opened clinic-- which is run by Systec Akazawa, makers of the skateboarding, Bluetooth-controlled PLEN bot -- as little more than a repair shop, the employees apparently conduct themselves in a very professional manner, donning traditional hospital lab coats and dividing the space into examination, operating, and rehabilitation rooms. The hospital is currently staffed by just four "physicians" led by a Dr. Ohno, who says that the most common maladies they encounter are faulty motors, fractured frames, and severed wires. So before sending your malfunctioning Robosapien, decapitated Qrio, or rabid Aibo to that great mechatronic heaven in the sky (a.k.a. your local landfill), spend a few bucks on a long distance call to Akazawa -- they may just be able to fix up your beloved robotic companion and return him/her as good as new.

[Via Robot Gossip and Loving the Machine]

[LazyMegaMan @ Sep 11th 2006 4:05AM]

Lovely, it spells see. Also hah, the Dr.Ohno, Oh-no. What a riot!

[Tom @ Sep 11th 2006 4:35AM]

mechatronic heaven... *shivers*

[Revels @ Sep 11th 2006 6:00AM]

I would have used "The Doctor Will C++ You Now"

lolz

[J. Neutron @ Sep 11th 2006 8:56AM]

I had to send my Denon R1 car stereo to Osaka japan to get fixed.... Maybe this guy fixed it. Even worse... Maybe my radio is a robot, and its just waiting for an opportunity to take over my vehicle.

[J. Neutron @ Sep 11th 2006 8:58AM]

OH NO is right! Don't you see? Japan is already serving the robot overlords!!!

[Wes Palmer @ Oct 25th 2007 8:36PM]

AGH!

[James @ Sep 11th 2006 9:10AM]

Only a robot could've come up with a name like "Dr. Ohno." I tell you, the machines have taken over that hospital and turned it into their own private sanctuary, complete with 24-hour-a-day playings of every episode of Star Trek involving the Borg.

That being said, I, for one, welcome our self-repairing, really-bad-joke-making, mechanically-inclined robot overlords.

[chief Android @ Sep 12th 2006 6:41AM]

Can`t wait til they see the Uk`s shores, perhaps some day soon!!