ABB will install advanced collaborative robots for medical laboratories and hospitals, starting with a new medical center at Texas Medical Center in Houston, United States, in October
The new facility at Texas Medical Center's Innovation Campus focuses on non-surgical medical robot systems
By 2025, malls worldwide are estimated to reach nearly 60,000 non-surgical medical robots, a literally quadrupling number compared to 2018
ABB announced that it will open a new healthcare center at the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Campus in Houston, Texas, bringing collaborative robots to medical laboratories.
The facility will open in October 2019 and will be ABB's first dedicated healthcare research center. ABB's research team will work with medical staff, scientists and engineers on the TMC campus to develop a non-surgical medical robot system, including logistics and next-generation automated laboratory skills.
Sami Atyya, President of ABB's Robotics and Discrete Automation business, said: "The next-generation laboratory processes developed in Houston will accelerate manual medical laboratory processes, reduce and eliminate bottlenecks in laboratory operations, and improve safety and consistency. This is especially true for new high-tech therapies, such as the cancer therapy pioneered at Texas Medical Center, which now requires a manual and time-consuming testing process. ”
Today, a constraining factor in the number of patients that can be treated is the need for highly skilled medical specialists who spend most of their day doing repetitive and low-value tasks, such as preparing slides and loading centrifuges. Automating these missions using robotics will allow medical professionals to focus on higher-skilled and productive tasks, together with significantly faster testing processes and ultimately helping more people to be treated.
ABB dissected the current extensive manual medical laboratory process and estimated that 50% more tests could be taken each year using automation, while practice robots were responsible
Repetitive processes will reduce the need for people to perform missions that cause repetitive strain injuries. RSI）。
As the international population ages, countries are spending more and more of their GDP on healthcare. In addition to improving the quality of patient care, advancing healthcare power through automation can alleviate some of the social, political, and financial challenges that come with it. According to an internal study by ABB, the mall for non-surgical medical robots is estimated to reach nearly 60,000 units by 2025, quadrupling from 2018.
ABB's cobots are already in operation in food and beverage laboratories around the world and are ideal for medical devices, as they can operate safely and efficiently with humans without the need for safety barriers. These robots will undertake a series of repetitive, delicate and time-consuming activities, including dosing, mixing, and pipetting missions, as well as sterile instrument kits and centrifuges
Handling.
Houston is the focus of global healthcare skills workshops, and the TMC innovation ecosystem is the location of ambition for ABB's new healthcare hub. A team of 20 people from ABB Robotics will work in the new 5,300-square-foot (500m2) research facility, which includes an automated lab and robotics training equipment, as well as meeting space to co-develop solutions with innovative collaborators.
"Through this exciting collaborative partnership, Texas Medical Center is continuing to drive innovative collaborations with cutting-edge professional collaboration by establishing TMC as the hub for ABB robotics into healthcare," said Bill McKeon, President and CEO of Texas Healthcare. "Center." Operating a city in a city that hosts 10 million patients a year must prioritize power and precision, and develop processes that are inherently reproducible. By bringing ABB to TMC Innovation's team to create robotic solutions in healthcare using this first-of-its-kind development facility, TMC is underlining its commitment to doing just that. ”
"We are proud to be working with one of the most advanced international collaboration partners to develop the cobot system for the hospital of the future and test it in a real-world laboratory to ensure they add value to healthcare professionals, drive innovation and change the way medical laboratories do business on a global scale," Atiya added. "A key element of ABB's long-term growth strategy is to continue to invest in and innovate service robots, bring our automation expertise to new areas such as healthcare, and strengthen our automotive and electronics careers."
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