HEALTHCARE — Care & Long-Term Care

Hand the routine night-shift vitals to a robot,
and give your nurses back to patients.

Vitals and rounds are highly repetitive, routine work. Let a robot take over the regular rounds and flag anomalies the moment they happen, and your nursing staff's time goes back to the work that genuinely needs their judgment.

The timeline of one night's rounds

  1. Scheduled startNurses tick the beds and set the time window on a web page, and the robot sets off on schedule — operable with zero coding background.
  2. Contactless bedside measurementAt just 24 cm wide, it fits the wards with the tightest bed spacing; with no lights, no contact and no disturbance, it collects vitals right at the bedside.
  3. Dashboard updates in real timeResults stream straight back to the nurses' station dashboard, and can be exported as CSV for batch archiving.
  4. Instant anomaly alertsWhen a reading falls outside the set range, the nurses' station is notified immediately, and nursing staff confirm and act on it.
  5. Auto-return and rechargeOnce the full round is done, it returns to charge on its own, ready for the next night.
Illustration of a nurses' station screen with beds ticked for scheduling, and a robot setting off on rounds from its dock late at night

板橋榮譽國民之家: over 1,500 hours saved a year

A large care facility with over 800 beds and residents averaging 83+ years old, where the robot is now part of daily operations

1,500+ hours
Labor freed up per year (official figure)
250 min
Daily workload replaced: daytime supply delivery + overnight patrol monitoring
2 hours
To complete 40 beds of overnight measurement · over 80% done automatically
0
Collisions or resident complaints during the live trial

Sources: 板橋榮譽國民之家 official release (2025-10), DIGITIMES report; results vary with bed layout and resident condition. Beds left incomplete are listed automatically by the system for nursing staff to follow up.

經濟部 "新創採購獎" (2025): this pilot project (板橋榮家 × Sigma Robotics × Wistron Medical Technology) was recognized with the 新創採購獎 from the 經濟部中小及新創企業署 — the robot carries Wistron Medical's millimeter-wave radar sensing to complete overnight vitals with no lights and no contact. Award coverage

Full 板橋榮家 case coverage →

新營醫院 nursing home: Tainan's city-designated smart-robot validation site

衛福部新營醫院 and 工研院 (ITRI) deployed the vital-sign robot "小黑輪"; matched through the Tainan City Government's "Smart Robotics Application SIG" platform, the nursing home is now a city-designated smart-robot validation site.

90 min
Saved per nursing shift (by the city's accounting)
45 hours
Freed up per month, cumulatively
24 hours
Contact-free continuous monitoring · felt most during short-staffed overnight hours
0 contact
Glides to within a meter of the bed, holds still, and measures breathing and heart rate — never touching residents

Sources: 聯合報, 自由時報, 中華日報 reports, and a Tainan City Economic Development Bureau press release (2026-07); the per-shift saving is the city's own figure, and results vary with the site and resident condition.

Tainan's "smart-robotics golden triangle": 黃麗蘭, head of the nursing department, says the robot was brought in to let nursing expertise return to clinical judgment and care; 王雅雯, head nurse, notes its around-the-clock operation is especially valuable for steady monitoring overnight and during short-staffed hours. This site sits on the same "contact-free rounds, freed-up labor" elder-care product line as 板橋榮家, and Tainan City Government has folded it into the "smart-robotics golden triangle" plan, with a follow-on rollout planned for the attached residential long-term-care facility in 柳營.

Full 新營醫院 coverage and media links →

What sets it apart

WORKFLOW — no added burden

Zero learning curve for nurses

Tick a bed on a web page to schedule it, and otherwise never touch the robot; a Traditional Chinese illustrated manual means no extra system to teach during shift handover.

FACILITY — site-friendly

Passes narrow corridors

A 24 cm body fits even corridors crowded with IV poles and carts; no magnetic tape and no construction, leaving the facility's fittings untouched.

INFECTION CONTROL

Contactless, infection-control friendly

Contactless measurement never touches residents.

The robot's role is to bring the sensor to the designated spot; measurement results and their validity rest on the chosen sensor, positioned as assistive monitoring and not for diagnostic use.

Track record in Japanese healthcare

Source: Preferred Robotics (manufacturer's public cases)

The above are the manufacturer's public cases; 宮田歯科 is not listed on this site's Japan cases page. Source: Preferred Robotics.

Full Japan deployment cases (with on-site photos) →

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No equipment cost — we survey, set up and run alongside you on-site for a week, then deliver a complete trial report you can take straight into a nursing-department meeting or sign-off. If you don't adopt after the trial, we charge nothing.

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