Overview

  • Students: Kory Kraft, David Rebhuhn
  • GitHub: Coming soon.
  • Funding: NSF

Description

We are currently evaluating which tasks are suitable and helpful for a robot to perform in an ETU.

Our primary goal is to focus on minimizing the time health care workers are in a contamination zone while ensuring quality patient care is provided. Cutting the time workers are in potential danger zones might remove the burdens currently encountered when wearing full personal protective equipment. If some of these tasks were completely automated, it would free the health care workers up to perform other tasks that robots cannot or should not do.

For example, the mundane tasks of removing contaminated linens and bedpans allow health care workers to either be out of the potential contamination zone or focus on the more patient-oriented or complex tasks.

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