Taiwan Bets $1.5B on AI Robot Nurses and Scrub Bots — Jun 1, 2026

Taiwan just put one and a half billion dollars behind robot nurses in real operating rooms.Run time: 20:53In today's episode:Taiwan and Foxconn launch 1.5 billion dollar clinical AI pushCoalition for Health AI ships 8 governance playbooksBostonGene brings 9 AI biomarker abstracts to ASCORoswell Park flags limits of AI clinical decision supportLancet Digital Health audits fairness metrics in clinical AIDana-Farber lands two plenaries at ASCO 2026Anthropic splits programmatic Claude usage into creditsNVIDIA unveils RTX Spark personal AI superchipTL;DR:Embodied AI moves from concept to a sovereign-scale deployment: NVIDIA, Foxconn, and Taiwan's hospital network commit $1.5B to put agentic and physical AI into real ORs and wards.CHAI publishes the most comprehensive open governance playbooks yet — eight modules for 100+ US health systems, mapped to the Joint Commission's coming AI certification.ASCO 2026 day three turns into AI day: BostonGene, Roswell Park, Dana-Farber, and a dedicated 4:30 PM AI session put oncology AI into the plenary spotlight.Sources cited:sourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourcesourceSubscribe: YouTubemedAI Times is for educational and informational purposes only. The content does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendation, or professional clinical guidance. Consult qualified healthcare professionals and refer to official sources before making clinical, research, regulatory, or business decisions.