"Nurses in hospitals spend a significant amount of work with preparation and administrative tasks. F&P develops light weight personal robots implementing an intrinsic security concept. Their next goal is to introduce their robots in the Healthcare sector, supporting the tasks performed by the health professionals. The shortage of qualified personnel encourages hospitals to focus the work of nurses on their key tasks - medical treatments and care. The project Robot Assistant for Nurses (RAN) aims to automate the very frequent and labor intensive task of material preparation before the taking of blood samples. The RAN system is designed to have a big potential for extension to other medical treatments."
