Scientists from universities in Germany, Ireland and Britian are among the experts taking part in the IWARD project. So, what is this project all about? Well, project leader Thomas Schelgal from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany came up with an innovative idea that could potentially help with the shortages of nurses in hospitals. These robot nurses, that he hopes will be ready for 2010 would eliminate some stress on human nurses by providing robotic help within hospitals. These robot nurses would help to clean up spills, deliver messages and guide visitors around the hospital, bringing them to their correct destination. Schlegal hopes that these robot nurses will even in some time, be able to distribute medicines to the specific patients and even monitor patients temperatures with laser thermometers!
This project aims at specifically helping out in hospitals by eliminating some of the stress nurses undergo each day. By having these robot nurses, the human nurses are able to focus on more important tasks while their robot nurses are able to focus on the less important ones. These robots would work in teams to communicate with each other and be able to coordinate duties among each.
So what will these robots look like? Well, each robot would consist of a mobile platform mounted with a module of sensors, cameras and equipment for different tasks. These sensors and cameras would help the robots to avoid collisions while traveling throughout the hospitals. These robots would also come with voice and face recognition technology to communicate with patients.
Interesting idea Schlegal, but it will be more interesting to see how badly your idea fails.
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