This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics at 07 Sept, 13:00 UTC

You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and which way it bends…