Relay Robotics, Inc., a manufacturer of autonomous service robots to the healthcare industry, introduced its newest hospital robot, RelayRx, today at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Summer Meetings & Exhibition. Relay delivery robots have been deployed at 15+ hospital systems over the past five years. RelayRx delivers twice the capacity (10 gallons, 41 liters) of earlier models, with an expanded 8” touchscreen.
Relay robots are used daily at leading hospitals worldwide, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CHU Sainte-Justine, El Camino Hospital, Hutchinson Health, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, University of California, San Diego and Yale NewHaven Health Lawrence + Memorial. Hospitals use Relay robots to make deliveries from every department including pharmacies and labs to every corner of their facility, quickly and efficiently. RelayRx is effectively another “transport system” for these hospitals.
Relay and its technology leaders have been building robots for 10+ years and pioneered human friendly robot design and software functionality, including elevator integration.
RelayRx rides elevators in hospitals autonomously by leveraging Relay’s proprietary elevator technology to operate all major elevators including OTIS, Schindler, TK, Mitsubishi, KONE, and others. This enables RelayRx to navigate throughout an entire hospital, connecting departments like the pharmacy and blood bank with patient rooms with an average delivery time of seven minutes.
