FX-7 medical assistant droid/Legends

The FX-7 medical assistant droid was a medical droid manufactured by Medtech Industries as part of the FX-series of surgical assistants and nursing droids.

The FX-7 model was a tall, cylindrical unit roughly symmetrical on all sides. It was equipped with twenty retractable manipulator arms, including a primary telescoping grasping arm able to extend up to one meter, a fine manipulator arm, a medicine/anesthesia dispensing hose and a control board manipulator. It also featured medical diagnostic sensors and a droid language vocoder. Medtech's conceptual engineers did not consider mobility to be an important factor of the FX-7's design, and thus the droids required transporation from one place to another, either through the use of a repulsorcart, or it otherwise had to be physically dragged. The droid's head could rotate 360 degrees.

The FX-7s proved to be highly effective droids&mdash;so much so that Medtech did not receive a single complaint during the entire production run&mdash;though newer, far superior droids such as the 2-1B surgical droid and the MD-series medical specialist droid largely made the FX units obsolete. Medtech ultimately retired the line, though during the Galactic Civil War, hundreds of FX-7 droids could still be found in the Expansion Region and Outer Rim Territories.

FX-7 droids proved particuarly useful to the credit-strapped Alliance to Restore the Republic. An FX-7 unit was employed at Echo Base on Hoth, where it worked alongside a 2-1B droid. Many medical assistants were also owned by the Xuchpra and Zaltin bacta conglomerates on Thyferra, as they made superior bacta tank operators.

Appearances

 * MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Tales of the Bounty Hunters
 * Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II