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Robot hospital beds in Singapore easier to move about

31-Oct-14, The Straits Times

It will soon be easier and safer to wheel hospital beds around Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), with the roll-out of "robot" beds which can be pushed by just one worker instead of the usual two.

The beds come with a motor to generate power, as well as a "brain" or intelligent system.

The system, called EPush, can sense the amount of strength being used to push the bed, the speed it is moving at, and the gradient of the ground. It then adjusts the amount of power to maintain a safe, regulated speed.

Singapore firm Abacus Global Technology took about three years to develop the system, and it passed evaluation tests in August. It will be added to 100 beds at KTPH over the next six months.

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