Concept Case

Social Robots in Healthcare

Social robots can help relieve a healthcare sector under pressure

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The healthcare sector is in need of more robots

The healthcare sector is suffering from a global shortage of medical staff, a challenge that has been painfully evident during the recent months of the COVID-19 crisis. WHO predicts that the shortage will continue to grow with 18 million additional healthcare workers needed by 2030 – and robots can be part of the solution. According to the World Economic Forum, the broad usage of robots during COVID-19 is a strong indication that the healthcare system is in need of more robots.

Finding new innovative ways to keep staff safe, save cost and increase efficiency will be key to survival, not as a replacement for medical staff but as a complement.

Imagine if there was extra help available to…

Greet, inform & register patients in their own language
Provide contactless screening and measurement
Easily scale up & down depending on workload
Provide comfort & trust to patients

How Furhat can help

Register walk-in patients
Record medical history
Measure vital signs

Furhat Robotics presents a new, unique concept for relieving healthcare providers under pressure. The Furhat robot, placed in a clinic or a key public location, will greet patients in their own language, register walk-ins, record medical history and measure basic vital signs including temperature and blood pressure.

Not only will this be a means of providing a comforting and empathetic patient experience, but equally important it will alleviate nurses and doctors from time-consuming and virus contagious routine tasks, ultimately enabling a more cost- and resource-efficient healthcare access.

Concept specific features

Integrated camera to enable the robot to understand where the user is, and also measure blood pressure
Thermometer to measure body temperature
Information display to show different options and additional information
Ticket dispenser to provide summary of screening and ticket for queuing

“The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.”

Human-Centerd Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University

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