A team of lecturers and students at the Politeknik Negeri Semarang (Polines) developed an effective and efficient health service robot for health facilities such as community health centers or hospitals. This innovation, called Robot Medical Assistant (RAMA), is capable of mapping rooms.
RAMA is an innovation in the field of medical services developed by a lecturer at the Polines Electrical Engineering Department, Achmad Fahrul Aji and a team of lecturers and students. RAMA development research is a campus collaboration with PT Telkom Indonesia and PT Rohde & Schwarz Indonesia through the 2023 Vocational Matching Fund.
"RAMA version 3.0 produced by the Vocational Matching Fund in 2023 is an improvement on the previous version of RAMA which was developed by a team of lecturer researchers," said Achmad, quoted from Vocational Ministry of Education and Culture.
Achmad said RAMA's development could not be separated from the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions on interaction encourage innovation in health services, one of which is through the development of robots to assist health services for patients, especially for those who have to be hospitalized.
"Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency, the potential for the spread of infectious diseases that threaten public health in the future needs special attention," said Achmad.
"It is important to prepare for infectious disease outbreaks so that when a pandemic comes, the technology developed is ready to be used," he added.
RAMA is considered as part of the solution to prepare for emergency situations of infectious outbreaks in the future. This product is also said to be able to directly help health workers in improving health facility services.
Able to do spatial mapping
This latest version of RAMA has differences from the previous version. This robot is capable of mapping and localizing rooms, so that it can autonomously navigate while carrying medicine, medical equipment or documents to the desired room.
This innovation created by Polines is equipped with a telemedicine feature which can be a website-based means of communication between doctors and patients. This feature is expected to reduce the spread of the virus by minimizing direct contact between patients and doctors during an outbreak.
Apart from that, RAMA is equipped with a health check-up platform which provides facilities for checking a patient's vital signs independently. Vital body measurements that can be done independently are blood pressure, oxygen saturation in the blood, pulse and body temperature.
"The results of vital sign measurements are sent using IoT technology so that the patient's condition can be monitored using an Android application directly and periodically by doctors or other medical personnel," explained Achmad.
It is hoped that the various features of RAMA can be an innovative technological solution for the effectiveness and efficiency of services in health facilities as well as mitigation in the event of an infectious disease emergency in the future.
Source: detik.com