The Texas hospitals buy the robots replacing nurses

In the middle of April, 2020 it became known that the Texas hospitals began to buy the Moxi robots made by Diligent Robotics to help nurses.

Moxi is intended for decrease in load of nurses and is capable to carry out such tasks as collecting is model, collecting dirty and delivery of fresh linen. So left that the robot enters the market during COVID-19 pandemic when the acute shortage of nurses began to affect. Developers hope that Moxi not only will facilitate daily aspects of work of nurses, but also will reduce risk of infection of health workers with a coronavirus.

The Texas hospitals began to buy the Moxi robots made by Diligent Robotics to help nurses

Moxi was created by Diligent Robotics in the University of Texas (Austin, the State of Texas) under the leadership of the CEO, robotics and professor Andrea Thomaz who directed Tech Socially Intelligent Machines Lab laboratory of the State of Georgia earlier.

Now the best time for work on this problem is valid — Tomaz in telephone interview noted. — In the light of a koronavirusny pandemic we it is more, than ever, began to pay attention, are how overloaded with work of the nurse and as staff shortage of hospitals is felt. Therefore we try to involve as much as possible robots to help them.

Earlier Moxi robots passed more than 3000 hours of tests in hospitals in Austin and Dallas (State of Texas), and at the beginning of 2020 the robot arrived to the first client — the Medical City Healthcare medical center in Dallas. According to Tomaz, Diligent Robotics is not ready to share yet specific data on as far as Moxi can facilitate work of nurses, but these digits for certain will be published in future articles.

In April, 2020 Diligent Robotics attracted $10 million investments for expansion of the park of robots who can help nurses with hospitals. Earlier it already received $5 million for improvement of the products.^[1]

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