Robotics
Robots for the hospital of the future
ABB has opened its first global Health Care Hub dedicated specifically to healthcare research on the campus of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston, Texas. A number of technology concepts were presented at the opening, including a mobile YuMi robot.
"The healthcare sector is facing major challenges because the diagnosis and treatment options for diseases are improving, but at the same time the population is ageing and there is an increasing shortage of healthcare professionals. With our new Health Care Hub at TMC, we want to develop answers to these challenges together with the best minds from research, science and medicine," says Sami Atiya, Head of Robotics and Factory Automation at ABB, and adds: "Our experience in industrial robotics and collaborative robotics is a strong starting point to create flexible automation solutions for the healthcare sector. Together with our partners at the TMC, we will develop pioneering robotics solutions."
The TMC is the largest medical city in the world. The TMC's institutions include some of the world's leading companies and hospitals. ABB's new Health Care Hub will cover 500 m². According to an internal study by ABB, the global market is expected to grow to almost 60,000 medical robots for non-surgical applications by 2025. This means that the market will almost quadruple compared to 2018.
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