DOTmed August 18, 2023
Not-for-profit BayCare has refined the supply distribution process at its integrated service center (BISC) by deploying 25 state-of-the-art robots to assemble and transport approximately 12,000 daily orders requested by the health system’s 16 hospitals and hundreds of doctor’s offices, laboratories, and ambulatory surgical centers in West Central Florida.
The robots are designed by Locus Robotics, which specializes in automated warehouse robotics, and will work in conjunction with BISC’s employees. At the 258,000-square-foot facility, the solution is assigned an order and a worker uses a touchscreen to select an item listed. Mapping software then directs the robot and the employee on the most efficient route to the item.
At the location, the employee loads the item into the robot’s tote bag...
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