There are already robots in Colorado that can disperse bombs, map tunnels, and distribute food. There seems to be no limit to the role that robots play in our daily lives.
Another area where people and robots already coexist in the state is the medical sector, which has a promising future for new technologies.
Broomfield robotics has the potential to transform how individuals access their medications and how hospitals obtain the supplies they require for operating rooms.
Swisslog Healthcare claims that its products are already in hundreds of health systems across the globe, and its manufacturing facility is located in Broomfield.
As part of “National Robotics Week,” the facility invited University of Colorado Boulder students to see how it all operates up close.
Swisslog Healthcare’s director of client engagement and training is John Kennedy.
Kennedy discussed their newest technology throughout the tour, which aids in packaging and delivering medications to patients as well as other supplies that physicians use.
Kennedy remarked, “This machine packages one per second roughly, so 3,600 doses an hour,” in reference to one of their pharmaceutical organisation machines.
“We are delivering drugs to nursing units. We’re delivering units of blood to the OR’s. If a patient needs blood in a surgery, they’ll tube it up there.”
Jack Bernard, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering at CU, was one of the students that went on the trip.
“[I] like learning about the industry and like checking out different areas to see where I might want to work,” Bernard stated.
Students like Bernard, who have personally witnessed family issues with ageing equipment, aspire to utilise their degree to better medical technology.
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“I kind of realized that I want to help people with my degree, because my grandma had this thing where her insulin pump wasn’t working, and she had to go to the hospital. And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s it. I want to do medical,'” Bernard stated.
Swisslog Healthcare expects the tour will increase local opportunities for aspiring engineers to learn about Colorado-made medical technologies.
“We do health care automation, and it’s really a great way for us to expose people to what we do, and also opens our eyes to, ‘Hey, they may want to work here one day,'” Kennedy stated.
