Panasonic Hospi Trail, an innovative robot for the distribution of hospital material

With its touch screen and designed with on-board sensors and hospital mapping data, This is the latest update to the Hospi robotic delivery system. Panasonic. Can move independently through the rooms, avoiding people and obstacles along the way.

In its effort to develop robots that can coexist with people and expand their potential, Panasonic has created Hospi Trail, designed to carry out autonomous deliveries and alleviate the lack of personnel in hospitals.

This is the latest version of the system autonomous robotic delivery Hospi, originally released on 2013. Since then, These robots have provided medicines and other products in 10 hospitals in Japan and two in Singapore.

I will be a robot, which are characterized by their touch screens with a cheerful cartoon face, They use on-board sensors and hospital mapping data to navigate autonomously through the wards, safely avoiding people and various obstacles along the way.

Hospi Trail is a robot with a loading cart that can deliver goods to a hospital without needing someone to receive them. Previously, staff had to be present to receive delivery, but the new equipment can autonomously separate your goods cart once it has reached its destination.

It can transport two types of cars up to 60 kilograms of weight: one of medicines made up of two batteries of 18 trays and another storage consisting of three containers of 50 liters. The robot can travel at speeds up to 0,75 meters per second, and run for five hours after fully recharging for two and a half hours.

This robot was presented at the international robot exhibition iREX, main meeting point for companies, clients and actors interested in technologies related to industrial robots, services and consumption.