Logistics robot lightens workload in Dutch hospital

ICT&health September 24, 2024

The Dutch St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht recently acquired a new employee: the Swiftbot. This new logistics robot collects material from various outpatient clinics that needs to be taken to the Nieuwegein location for pathological examination. This gives the human employees more time for other important tasks.

The robot makes a fixed round through the hospital in Utrecht, three times a day, to collect (cell)tissue that needs to be taken to the Pathology department in Nieuwegein for examination. For example, a biopsy of a mole needs to be collected from the Dermatology outpatient clinic. As soon as an employee has placed the biopsy in the robot, the robot continues to the next outpatient clinic to collect material there. When the...

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