Look Around You: Health

This is Medibot, the future of health care.

Manufactured in China, he's the only robot in the world qualified to perform surgery. Medibot can carry out any number of medical procedures, from complex plastic surgery to simple urine samples. Tony Curtis owns three.

Medibot came to the Look Around You studio accompanied by Dr Franklin Fu. Dr Fu has a close relationship with the robot. He discovered Medibot likes to eat Hundreds and Thousands (who doesn't!) and can play the mouth organ.

During the programme Medibot performed plastic surgery on Jack Morgan. You can see the results in our educational picture gallery. Poor Jack had to go through the process again, in reverse, in order to be back to normal for next week's programme.

Medibot's Urine Sample Test:
Here's a fun little game to test your knowledge of urine. Read the clues and then try and help Medibot work out which famous person produced which famous urine sample.

Invention of the Week: Geodermic Grantitis, or Cobbles, is a terrible affliction which causes the sufferer to turn into a pile of rocks. Inventor Dr Phillip Lavender, who has the disease himself, developed a cream made from cream, potassium, nitrates, potassium nitrates and nitrate of potassiate nitrates which provides some relief.

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