As the global medical industry faces a gap in its workforce, nurses may soon be able to rely on the aid of autonomous robots that would cut down on the time employees spend delivering supplies around hospitals.
That’s a project recently launched by Zeus Robotics, a start-up participating in the Company Lab’s fall cohort in Chattanooga. CEO Vivek Thankachan said he has friends in the nursing profession who have consistently told him about the exhaustion they feel on the job.
“They said it is not about the patient,” Thankachan said in an interview. “It is about, ‘I need to run around the hospital to take all the things. It makes me so physically strained.’ That clicked for me.”
Thankachan said it also caused him to dig deeper into the problem.”