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17.03.2007

Engineers from Germany and seven other EU countries have begun to create robots for the hospital. The dimensions of the robot for the hospital should not exceed half a meter. It must be equipped with a motor, wheels, a computer, a monitor, a loudspeaker, radio communication, optical sensors and manipulators for cleaning the room. All this equipment is already there.

"Our goal is to assemble it on one platform and equip the system with a sufficiently high intelligence. And such a robot will come in handy not only for cleaning the premises. It will be possible to call a doctor or take a visitor to the patient with it. The main difference of our system is that the robot can act not only autonomously, but also form a single intellectual center with other robots,” says Thomas Schlegel from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Germany), who coordinates the European IWARD project (from “intelligent robot swarm for attendance, recognition, cleaning and delivery”).

How this system will work can be judged by several examples. Imagine that one robot is cleaning the ward, and the other is standing in the corridor and sees an elderly patient approaching the ward. Then he informs the first cleaning robot about this, and he, just in case, crawls into a corner so that the patient does not stumble on him. It may happen that a nurse who is in the ward for patients with heart disease urgently needs the help of a cardiologist.

With the help of a robot from this ward, she will be able to contact all the robots of the department, and one of them will definitely find a doctor. And using the communication channel and the monitor of the robot, the doctor will immediately be able to delve into the essence of the problem and examine the patient without wasting precious minutes.

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