Faced with a growing number of medical students and few training hospitals, Mexico City’s UNAM University opened on Monday the world’s largest “robotic hospital” where medical students practice on everything from delivering a baby from a robotic dummy to injecting the arm of a plastic toddler.

The robots are dummies complete with mechanical organs, synthetic blood and mechanical breathing systems.

“The country’s rapid increase of medical students has not kept up with the number of medical facilities,” said Joaquin Lopez Barcena, an associate dean at the university’s medical school. “This a very a good learning opportunity for our students.”

The $1.3 million facility has 24 robotic patients and a computer software program that can simulate illnesses ranging from diabetes to a heart attack.

Via Reuters.
Pictures from the press release.