San Jose-based telehealth company VSee Health and Ava Robotics, a developer of intelligent robots for the workplace, have announced a partnership to develop autonomous VSee-powered Ava robots for use in hospital inpatient intensive care units.
The robot is powered by VSee’s SaaS platform, which enables clinicians and businesses to create telehealth workflows, allowing remote physicians to deliver bedside ICU patient care and collaborate with on-site staff.
“Not only will patients receive the best expertise and better care wherever they are, but hospitals will be able to provide new advanced levels of care, reducing transfers and costs associated with critical care and stroke,” Dr. Imo Aisiku, co-CEO and chairman of VSee Health, said in a statement.
“The Ava robot, whose first commercial product was released in June, is expected to enable improved remote stroke surgery and will likely find further applications in medicine as the use of robots expands.”
Larger trends
Many robotics companies Shortage of skilled labor It is seen across the care landscape.
Diligent Roboticsis the maker of Moxi, an autonomous clinical support robot that performs delivery tasks for hospital staff who do not have direct contact with patients, such as fetching supplies from a central warehouse, transporting test samples, collecting patient belongings, distributing personal protective equipment, moving light equipment between units, and delivering medications.
Diligent in 2019 The company raised $3 million in seed funding, and a year later, $10 million in a Series A funding round.
In 2022, the company It raised $30 million in Series B funding and $25 million in new capital last year.
Another company in this field is Movia hopes to use robots combined with software to help children with autism and other developmental or intellectual disabilities learn new skills.
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