Hospi: the robot for hospitals

Hospi is an autonomous robot created by Panasonic and intended for South Korean hospitals. Hospi can move around patients' rooms and serve meals, clean laundry, medication, X-rays, documents to sign, etc. This type of robot has been used in hospitals in Japan since 2006. Equipped with a video camera with morphological detection and a laser detector, this robot can avoid obstacles and people in its way by slowing down intelligently. Hospi travels at a speed of 1 meter per second. It measures 1.30 m in height and weighs 120 kg. Its battery lasts 7 hours and it can recharge by itself enabling it to operate 24 hours a day. Nurses should be happy because this saves them from going backward and forward for nothing. via plasticpals