Development of medical dispatcher: A robot that delivers medicine

Abstract The medical dispatcher is a device that delivers medicine. It can be used to deliver medication within pharmaceutical centers and hospitals. The device, controlled by a user behind the computer system, delivers medicine to different patients in the hospital, either on a road system or an air system, and it allows the patient to communicate with the medical expert who is controlling the device. The goal of this research is to assist medical facilities lacking medical staff such as nurses, by incorporating technologies (medical dispatch robot) to deliver medications. Instead of having five nurses per ward of ten patients, there can be one nurse and one medical dispatch operator controlling a medical dispatcher robot. There are two major components employed in this research: the hardware (the physical parts that interact with both the operator and the patients) and the software (the instructions that control the physical components). The medical dispatcher was a success as all the components worked well in achieving the targeted goal.