Moxi Says No to Useless Errands for Nurses
Moxi (developed by Diligent Robotics) is a robotic assistant that can perform various tasks in a hospital setting to support clinical staff. The tasks it can perform include:
- Running patient supplies
- Delivering lab samples and medications
- Distributing personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Fetching items from the central supply
- Delivering medications
- Retrieving items left for patients at the front desk
Autonomous Navigation
Moxi is able to move autonomously in a hospital by combining mobile manipulation skills, obstacle avoidance, path planning, and social intelligence features. It can successfully travel to specific locations in the hospital, pick up supplies, medications, or other items, and deliver them to various points in the hospital.
Obstacle Avoidance
Moxi uses sensors that make it sensitive to people walking, standing, or moving near it to avoid obstacles and interact safely with staff and patients.
Social Cues Moxi can Convey
Moxi has a face designed to visually communicate social cues and intentions before moving to the next task. It is conscious enough to greet people with a friendly wave and heart eyes, indicating a friendly and welcoming demeanour.
Moxi’s affect on the workload of nurses and clinical staff
Moxi was created to save the time nurses and clinical staff spend on non-care activities like gathering supplies, fetching medications and delivering lab samples. Moxi does all of that and allows nurses and clinical staff to focus solely on patient care.
You could say that Moxi is an auxiliary nurse.
Pros and Cons of Moxi
What the experts are saying
Final Thoughts
The idea of Moxi is great and the execution even greater. They are getting a lot of media attention and you can see thise feature on Crunchbase. Nurses can now focus on the very thing that they are meant to do: care for their patients instead of worrying about procurement and logistics.
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