Kawasaki Heavy Industries, alongside Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing firm Foxconn, has developed a nurse assistant robot.
The nurse assistant bot, dubbed “Nurabot,” is expected to alleviate global staffing shortages among medical professionals — particularly nurses — working in challenging physical and mental labor environments.
Source: Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Based on “Nyokkey,” Kawasaki’s autonomous social robot, Nurabot is reportedly capable of assisting nurses with its two arms that can grasp objects, a cargo compartment and self-driving functions. Likewise, Nurabot can take over tasks typically handled by nurses, such as transporting blood test specimens, performing medication delivery, offering facility guidance and providing hygiene education to patients.
“Our goal is to improve the harsh working environment that nurses face everyday and support them in performing their duties more efficiently and safely. Through verification experiments at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, we aim to confirm how Nurabot can be useful in actual medical settings and continue to make further improvements,” the companies explained.
