QC Bot™ is a hospital courier, a remote presence solution and a patient safety assistant. Because QC Bot integrates with your information systems, logistic and medication orders are passively captured, verified, executed and documented within your existing systems and without dual entry. Talk with a physician or pharmacist at the point of care, verify the right medication for the right patient and never miss a delivery time.
One robot, many uses
- Configurable cargo modules allow for transport of open and/or secure payloads.
- Eight locking motorized drawers store medication or confidential paperwork
- Three-tiered trays or a large payload bay transports laundry, packages, meals, mail, supplies, and more saving labor and time
- The QC Bot autonomously delivers its cargo and verifies the recipient's identity through barcodes or RFID
- An on-board video camera, combined with a display panel, enables videoconferencing with remote specialists
- Integrates with existing Vecna patient self-service, quality and patient safety platforms and can even show patients to their appointments
Near Zero Infrastructure
The QC Bot is capable of autonomously navigating to a specified destination. The robot uses innovative planning and scheduling algorithms to automatically plan the best possible path for reaching each destination within provided time constraints.
- Minimal infrastructure means less set up time, less maintenance, and less burden on hospital environments
- When assigned a destination, the QC Bot finds its current location and maps a path to its destination through existing hallways and around foot traffic. It can even avoid known high-traffic areas
- The robot learns its environment by importing existing maps or by an interactive training procedure
- The system autonomously coordinates multiple robot activities: given a set of destinations and a set of robots, the scheduler automatically plans the most efficient sequence of destinations for each robot
- When the QC Bot detects its batteries are low, it navigates to a charging station and automatically plugs itself in to recharge, without any human intervention
- Entire QC Bot system is easily adaptable and expandable for addition of robot units, or a change in coverage area
