European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus

Identifying Challenges in the Healthcare Sector

ECHORD++ in a nutshell

• Strives to integrate healthcare practitioners, their knowledge and expertise in the product development process.

• An once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to influence how the future healthcare technologies can offer you the best help possible

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Identify Challenges

Deadline 10th of June 2014

Panel will select the most

interesting challenge

Workshop to gather potential

consortium members.

Creating mock-up artifacts

February 2015

Open Call for consortiums on

specific challenge

Development project and

business case

Panel selects the best solution

Challenges – the 4 D’s of Robotics Often, when you have to identify where a robotic solution can help you, you can ask yourself if you encounter any of the “D-assignments” in your professional life as a healthcare practitioner

Dull

3Dangerous

Dirty

Distance

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Dull

Robots can do jobs that require the repetition of actions over and overwithout getting bored or making mistakes.Examples could be:

• To repeat rehabilitation exercises • To repeat therapeutic treatment. E.g. in treatment of persons with autism

See examples of current solutions here:

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Dangerous

Robotic solutions can perform tasks that can harm employees physically, and can help prevent situations that put the patient and the employee in danger.An example could be:

• Heavy lifts• Operations

See examples of current solutions here:

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Dirty

Clean environments improves health of employees and patients.Examples could be:

• Cleaning robots• Washing robots• Bin emptying• Maintenance

See examples of current solutions here:

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Distance

Distance between departments and work spaces cause waste of time and resources. Examples of robotic solutions could be:

• Logistic robots• Autonomous guided vehicles• Pneumatic dispatch systems

See examples of current solutions here:

What is your challenge?

Please indicate your challenge where a new generation of robotic solution could be developed.

Maybe the current solutions do not fulfill your needs?Maybe you have a challenge which does not have a solution yet?

Contact Sabina Kethelz from Blue Ocean Roboticssk@blue-ocean-robotics.com

The ECHORD Plus Plus Consortium acknowledges support by the European Commission under FP7 contract 601116.