Aethon Introduces Robo-Nurses
June 23, 2011
Aethon has built Robo-Nurses, which could be used in executing menial tasks so that nurses can spend more time attending to the patient’s need. The Robo-nurses, called TUGs, are being used in hospitals to perform tasks such as delivering medication, linen, food and laboratory specimens to the wards, and waste removal. Testing trials on the robot have shown that the time taken for delivering the medicine is much less and there is no scope for the drugs to go missing. A study of the TUGs by the University of Maryland Medical Center showed that the average time span from the time the pharmacy receives the prescription to delivery dropped to 30 minutes and saved 6,123 hours of the time spent by nurses for tracking the medication. Learn more at www.aethon.com.
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