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Robotic ultrasound for arthritis patients: With this concept, a young team from Denmark has won the KUKA Innovation Award 2022. We talked to the winners.
ARTHUR, an ARTHritis ultrasound robot, is designed to assist in the examination of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The application consists of an automated ultrasound platform based on the sensitive KUKA lightweight cobot LBR Med that patients can interact with directly. This saves time for the physician during the consultation, as the ultrasound images for the diagnosis are already available. A Danish team here aims to develop a variety of robotic application platforms to help clinics increase the productivity and quality of their daily work. ARTHUR is the first product - and convinced the international jury of experts of the 20,000€ KUKA Innovation Award 2022.
This year's "Robotics in Healthcare Challenge" was all about medicine and healthcare. The winning team, ROPCA from Denmark, was selected at the leading international medical trade fair MEDICA in Düsseldorf - we spoke to the winners directly after the awards ceremony:
Participating in such an innovation competition is a good and helpful opportunity for any team. It's a way for KUKA to promote you, with professional marketing and, of course, a presence at the KUKA booth here at MEDICA, among other things. And of course it helps to have a robot for the development time - that speeds up the development process.
Keep your use case really simple and make it clear what the product can do and why you are using a robot application for it. Because everyone asks why you have to use a robot for the idea. And even if you have good arguments, it can then happen that you sometimes complicate the process too much. So keep it simple and clear - and do without things you don't need.
With this competition, KUKA aims to promote talent from the robotics community, accelerate the pace of innovation in automation and improve the exchange between research and industry. Every year, creative minds can submit their concepts for a task specified by KUKA. Each year, the focus is on a different technology. An international jury selects the final teams, who implement their ideas using KUKA technologies and present them at a major trade fair directly at the KUKA booth. Prize money of €20,000 awaits the winners of the Innovation Award.
New technologies around robotics, automation, AI and co are changing our lives and work in all areas - from industry to medicine and healthcare. How can we prepare future generations for this new world and promote talent? This is what KUKA is addressing throughout November under the motto #TechmeetsTalent.
