Service
Relay put two robots, named Dash and Daisy, into HCA Florida JFK Hospital in Atlantis, Florida, to carry lab samples, pharmacy orders and medicines.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets Relay's stage
What the source says
“today announced the new deployment of two robots, Dash and Daisy, at HCA Florida JFK Hospital in Atlantis, Fl.”
What it means
Relay, from Relay Robotics (formerly Savioke), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Relay
- Relay launched RelayRx, a hospital delivery robot with twice the storage of earlier models. It said its robots had worked at more than 15 hospital systems and made over 1 million deliveries.
- Savioke said its Relay robots made more than 11,000 hotel guest deliveries in 2015.
- Savioke's Relay robots were delivering items such as toothpaste and coffee to hotel guests, including at the Marriott Los Angeles LAX.
- Savioke, a robot startup founded in 2013 by former Willow Garage staff, raised $2 million from investors including Google Ventures to build a service robot.