Hospitals move a constant stream of medicines, meals, linens and lab samples between departments. Autonomous robots now carry these loads along corridors and in lifts, following maps of the building, so staff spend less time fetching and ferrying and more time on patient care.
Reliable internal delivery frees skilled staff for their real work and can run at all hours. The robots must navigate crowded corridors, use lifts and keep contents secure, which takes careful setup in a complex building, but once established they handle predictable transport tasks that would otherwise pull nurses and porters away from the bedside.