Veebot is a particularly gory robot. He takes your blood–not like a circuit-board Nosferatu might–instead, Veebot’s Mountain View-based creators are hoping he might head up the next generation of ...

Getting your blood drawn is never a fun experience, and some people are better about it than others. There are the ones who can sit still and not make a peep, and those who hyperventilate, cry, faint ...

Getting your blood drawn sucks—especially if the lab technician is new at the job. So instead of getting poked up to six times (this has happened to me), one startup is developing a prototype medical ...

Taking blood is a fine art. Even the most experienced practioner may require more than one stab to find a vein—seems only natural to wonder, might a robot do the job better? Mountain View’s Veebot ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Would your trust a machine to draw your blood? A startup company in California has created what's believed to be the first robot phlebotomist. Veebot uses infrared light and image ...

Veebot is a robotic device that identifies the correct vein with sufficient blood flow and draws blood faster and more safely than human phlebotomists. Veebot claims that its robotic phlebotomist can ...

The first of its kind, Veebot is a prototype robotic phlebotomist, designed to get all Dracula on your arm. It's supposed to be as good as a human at finding a vein and drawing your blood. Feel any ...

Drawing blood should be a routine procedure. Unfortunately complications can arise either in the elderly, who may have a compromised vasculature, or in children who are literally scared out of their ...

According to the group of former Stanford engineers turned entrepreneurs who founded Veebot, up to 25% of all venipuncture procedures don't draw blood on the first stick. In case you're wondering, ...

If you don't like needles then this could be your worst nightmare - a blood-sucking robot. But before you run away and vow never to enter a medical practice with such hi-tech instruments of torture, ...