Publication/Creation Date

September 18 2018

Creators/Contributors

Evan Ackerman (creator)
Diligent Robotics (contributor)
Andrea Thomaz (contributor)
Vivian Chu (contributor)
Agata Rozga (contributor)
University Of Texas At Austin (contributor)
Socially Intelligent Machines Lab (contributor)

Description

Earlier this year, Diligent Robotics introduced a mobile manipulator called Poli, designed to take over non-care related, boring logistical tasks from overworked healthcare professionals who really should be doing better things with their time. Specifically, Diligent wants to automate things like bringing supplies from a central storage area to patient rooms, which sounds like it should be easy, but is actually very difficult. Autonomous mobile manipulation in semi-structured environments is hard at the best of times, and things get even harder in places like hospitals that are full of busy humans rushing around trying to save the lives of other humans.

Moxi consists of a Freight mobile base from Fetch Robotics, a Jaco arm from Kinova Robotics, and an adaptive gripper from Robotiq.

Augments

Working, Performing, Helping, Assisting, Manipulating, Gripping, Grasping, Lifting, Navigating, Adapting

Technology Keywords

Robotics, Robotic Arm, Mobile Manipulator Robots, Humanoid Robots, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cameras, Sensors, Light Emitting Diodes (LED), Social Robots

Keywords

Hospitals, Medical, Prototypes, Work, Healthcare, Design, Social Interaction, Logistics

Marketing Keywords

Diligent Robotics, Moxi, Robotiq, Kinova Robotics, Fetch Robotics

Source

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/moxi-prototype-from-diligent-robotics-starts-helping-out-in-hospitals