Abu Dhabi: Student Invents Nursing Robot!
It goes without saying that the Emiratis are a source of innovation and creativity. The pandemic has simply succeeded in stoking their imaginative ideas. Just try these wonders: Ateeq Alsuwaidi, a young Abu Dhabi Emirati photographer and astrophotographer, has created a robot that can be used to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country in the sterilization campaign. A volunteer with the Emirates Red Crescent, Mohammed Saeed Sultan Al Kaabi, a UAE national, built a solar-powered sterilization corridor that can be used at mosque gates or homes to restrict the spread of COVID-19.
Among other inventions, Emirati inventor Ahmad Abdullah Majan has designed a smart sports helmet and a smart elderly crutch. Young Adeeb Al Blooshi is another genius, who has built on numerous innovations, including his father’s prosthetic limb and his mother’s housework robot. Talking of robots, Hamad Issa Al Marzouqi, a biomedical engineering student at Khalifa University, has succeeded in innovating nursing robots that perform multiple nursing duties. A robot that tracks vital signs in the human body is among them. This is the first step in the implementation of an automated nursing system and the key to building a system of artificial intelligence for the country’s health sector. Before being examined by a doctor, the concept behind the robot is to speed up preparatory tests on a patient and ease pressure on the nursing staff so that the robot conducts an essential part of procedures at medical centres. Al Marzouki clarified that before the physical test, the robot monitors the health symptoms that a doctor or a paramedic wants to know. Those signs indicate the body’s basic functions, including temperature, pulse, breathing, and blood pressure.
It accurately tests all of these in the patient and directly passes them to the specialist doctor to improve the process of diagnosing the condition of the patient, he added. If an abnormal vital sign such as excess weight, elevated blood sugar and other symptoms is found, the robot ‘s second duty is to provide medical advice while the patient is waiting. He added that the “Medical Kit” for permanent health care is among his inventions in the health sector.
This bag enables access to the doctor by the patient in the best and easiest way. It offers instruments to calculate at any time the vital signs that the doctor wants. In addition, the bag is fitted with a medication kit and a device that alerts the patient to take the medicine at the prescribed time and to directly contact the doctor at any time, so that he can provide the patient with medical treatment at any time, Al Marzouqi added.
