Your next visit to the doctor's office might take place inside a shiny eight-foot-by-eight-foot cube without anyone else there. With a few swipes on a screen you'll be able to immediately have diagnostics like heart and blood tests performed as well as more specialized things like having the weird spot on your skin examined.
It sounds like a science fiction movie. But these automated medical pods are slated to pop up in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the coming months. They're the flagship product of Forward, a seven-year-old startup founded by tech entrepreneur and Google veteran Adrian Aoun. On Wednesday Forward announced it has raised $100 million in new funding, along with plans to begin putting its CarePods in malls, gyms and other locations throughout the US.
