The aim of the research project IWARD is to create a robot team that is capable of performing ward-related operational functionalities in hospitals. The robots are on the one hand autonomous in performing their activities but on the other hand they also interact with health care staff through touch screens or voice respectively. IWARD mainly focuses on hospitals and health care centres to overcome the shortage of staff.  

IWARD concept introduces two new solutions to improve service robotics in hospitals:

1. Service robots acting as a team 
2. Modular design of the robots

To provide high level scalability and to enable an adapted configuration of the robots depending on a hospital’s requirements, IWARD robots are designed following a modular design.

The following Flash-Application is an interactive demonstration of the use and usefulness of the IWARD robots. Just click on the blue boxes with 1..5 to start the missions.