Robots in Healthcare

🤖Milton, a robot shaped like a penguin 🐧, is delivering medicines around hospitals as part of a new trial at Milton Keynes University Hospital (NHS).

📌 The trial aims to REDUCE THE TIME SPENT by hospital patients waiting for their medicines 💊, which is often the last step before they can be discharged.

It will navigate between the hospital’s pharmacy and a selected in-patient ward a considerable distance away 🧭 It has a hatch for carrying the medicines, which has to be opened be human staff when it reaches its destination. 

〰️ The bot uses SONAR and LiDAR technology 〰️ to navigate around obstacles such as people, wheelchairs and beds inside the hospital 🤓

❝These helper bots are there to try and make life that little bit easier for both hospital staff and patients – to be there when needed and out of the way when they are not❞
🗣️ William Sachiti, founder and CEO of Academy of Robotics.