The FHF Fund and the French company Meanwhile have teamed up for a first-of-its-kind competition. Their project: to provide the winning public health establishment with a state-of-the-art robot, XuP-Med, enabling healthcare professionals to refocus on their primary mission: patient care.
Lyon, September 20, 2023 – The competition aims to support healthcare establishments in need of relieving the burden on nursing teams by giving them back time dedicated to the patient. The winner receives an autonomous mobile robot, XuP-Med, with a gross value ofaround €100,000.
This autonomous mobile robot ensures the safe transport of medical products and devices: drugs, chemotherapies, blood bags, analysis samples, endoscopes, diagnostics, and more. It moves in complex environments over several floors, among care teams, patients and visitors.
Here are a few examples of applications already covered by XuP-Med in healthcare facilities:
XuP-Med autonomous mobile robot | Meanwhile
To win this prize, worth around €100,000, candidates have two months in which to fill in an application form and confirm their participation.
From September 20, 2023, participants will be able to submit their applications on www.meanwhile-france.com/concours. The closing date for entries is November 30, and the winner will be announced in April 2024.
Find out more about XuP-Med robot applications:
About Meanwhile – A specialist in autonomous mobile robotics, Meanwhile offers turnkey solutions dedicated to transporting goods across infrastructures such as healthcare facilities and manufacturing industries. Created around a common vision – the consideration of men and women – Meanwhile offers “For Human” solutions, so that they can focus on tasks with high added value. Aware of the problems encountered in healthcare establishments, we wanted to relieve nursing staff of their daily journeys by providing a 100% automated transport solution.
About the Fonds FHF – In the healthcare sector, public hospitals are key players in innovation. To support them in this endeavor, the Fédération hospitalière de France (FHF) has created the Fonds FHF Recherche & Innovation to bring together all innovative players in the healthcare sector, and to focus on three key areas: promoting innovation, driving change and supporting innovative projects. Every year, with its 1,000 hospitals and 3,800 public medico-social establishments, the Fonds FHF works to improve the health of over 13 million patients, by building the healthcare system of tomorrow.
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