The Lantern Festival has just passed, yet the outbreak in Wuhan continues to spread, with cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia steadily increasing. Despite provinces urgently dispatching doctors and nurses to assist, medical staff remain working at full capacity. This strain on frontline medical resources is not only evident in Hubei Province but across the nation as a whole—a situation that cannot be ignored.Those medical workers on the front lines have bolstered public confidence through their courageous "reverse journey." Yet healthcare professionals are not made of steel; even these "angels in white" are flesh and blood. Just as patients can be infected by the virus, medical staff are not immune to infection. While they battle the epidemic with their courage, protecting them from infection is equally essential to the fight against the pandemic.
The epidemic must be contained, and our doctors and nurses must be protected. Reducing infections among medical personnel is a concern for every citizen. Recently, Cheetah Mobile partnered with its portfolio company Orion Robotics to launch a robotic medical system for epidemic prevention and control.Three "intelligent epidemic prevention robots" equipped with Orion Star's RobotOS not only retain existing features like natural voice interaction, facial recognition, and automated guidance but also feature specialized customization for epidemic control scenarios. They can perform fever screening, triage, preliminary diagnosis, real-time medical information disclosure, and targeted delivery of medical supplies in primary-level hospitals, supporting the epidemic prevention efforts of hospitals and medical systems nationwide.
Cheetah Mobile's Robot Medical System Epidemic Prevention Solution aims to reduce healthcare workers' workload and infection risks by having robots handle routine yet labor-intensive tasks within designated areas, such as preliminary diagnosis, ward rounds, and deliveries.Designed around the core principle of "contactless processing," Orion Star's "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Robot" enables doctors to remotely examine patients via video. It measures temperatures, checks tongue coatings, interacts with patients to assess their condition, and links collected data to individual facial IDs. The system sends patients diagnostic Q&A videos and prevention knowledge images, while patients can directly contact medical staff via video when necessary.
Robot-assisted preliminary diagnosis, triage, and remote consultations reduce cross-infection risks for medical staff
>The "Smart Epidemic Prevention Collaboration Robot" Bao Xiaomi, part of the robotics medical system's epidemic control solution, leverages Orion Star's industry-exclusive full-chain AI technology. It features natural voice interaction, automated facial recognition, navigation, and autonomous guidance. Deployed in medical settings, it provides services including fever screening, isolation consultations, facial recognition, remote ward rounds, hospital navigation, and data collection.Orion Star's "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Robot" incorporates an infrared temperature measurement module, enabling non-contact high-precision body temperature screening. This maximizes the reduction of cross-infection risks while rapidly and accurately completing group and individual temperature screening in high-traffic scenarios.The robot enables 24/7 infrared temperature monitoring with real-time reporting, establishing the first line of defense for intelligent temperature screening in high-traffic hospital settings. These functionalities are equally applicable in non-hospital environments such as communities, shopping malls, and corporate offices.
Additionally, the "Smart Epidemic Prevention Robot" Bao Xiaomi provides basic guidance to patients, such as directing them to registration areas, informing them where and when to collect lab results, and advising on fever management. If a patient exhibits fever symptoms, the robot facilitates remote consultations between doctors and patients, minimizing direct contact between medical staff and patients to reduce cross-infection risks.Furthermore, when deployed in fever emergency rooms or patient wards at designated hospitals, doctors can remotely control the robot from a backend system to observe patient conditions and communicate directly with patients. This enables remote diagnosis and treatment, avoiding direct physician-patient contact and preventing cross-infection. It effectively protects healthcare workers, reduces their workload, and decreases demand for protective equipment. This approach minimizes patient-physician contact and helps prevent further virus transmission.Doctors communicate with patients through the robot's video and voice functions, supported by text-to-speech conversion, voice-to-text conversion, and quick-key responses. Except in special circumstances, doctors do not enter patient rooms but conduct routine examinations via the robot.
Respiratory department staff who have trained on the system report that Orion Star's "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Robot" significantly aids their department's triage and preliminary diagnosis. Previously, staff shortages meant nearly everyone was on 24/7 standby to handle suspected cases,working nonstop around the clock. Even nursing staff were severely stretched. Baoxiaomi, however, can preemptively screen patients' temperatures and guide them through procedures. This not only streamlines the flow of patients visiting the hospital but also slightly reduces the burden on the department's doctors. He recently tried using Baoxiaomi for remote rounds, communicating face-to-face with patients directly through the video camera. He found it very convenient for both communication and diagnosis.
Robots deliver medical supplies, reducing healthcare workers' workload
The "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Delivery Robot" Baoxiao Di, part of the robotic medical system's epidemic control solution, features autonomous path planning, smart obstacle avoidance, voice control, proactive inquiry, and automatic charging during idle periods. Applied in medical settings, it provides services including specimen delivery, lab report delivery, medication delivery, protective equipment distribution, disinfection tool distribution, and medical waste transportation.The "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Delivery Robot" can replace medical staff in delivering lab orders, medications, and other items. By handling these simple yet labor-intensive routine tasks, the robot frees up more time for healthcare workers to rest while reducing infection risks during deliveries. For instance, in hospital settings, Baoxiao Di can perform point-to-point delivery and transportation of lab orders, medications, medical protective supplies, disinfection tools, and medical waste.After completing tasks, the robot is disinfected by medical staff. This approach not only lightens the workload for healthcare workers but also prevents cross-infection among hospital personnel and patients, reducing the risk of epidemic transmission.
AI Bolsters Hospitals' Frontline Defenses
Cheetah Mobile and Orion Star have closely monitored pandemic control developments, striving to contribute expertise to containment efforts. Replacing some medical tasks with robots—a scenario envisioned since AI's inception—has now been rapidly deployed in combating the novel coronavirus.At the onset of the severe outbreak, Cheetah Mobile and Orion Star urgently mobilized dozens of product and technical personnel. Based on the needs of hospitals and medical institutions, they swiftly developed a "Robotic Medical System Epidemic Prevention Plan." This initiative not only demonstrates Cheetah Mobile's social responsibility as a conscientious enterprise but also further embodies its philosophy: "In a world where humans and machines coexist, using technology to make life better."
To date, Orion Robotics' "Intelligent Epidemic Prevention Robot" has been deployed to support Peking University Shougang Hospital, Beijing Haidian Hospital, Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital, and Zhengzhou's "Little Xiaotangshan" Hospital. The development of robotics technology remains a long journey. During the outbreak, Cheetah Mobile's greatest aspiration is for robots to maximize the replacement of human tasks, thereby reducing the risk of infection for medical personnel.We hope frontline medical staff can safeguard their own safety while treating patients, freeing them from time-consuming, repetitive tasks to handle more urgent matters and secure greater rest time. Data and intelligent technologies should empower healthcare workers to diagnose conditions more efficiently, effortlessly, and safely. By embedding technology into practice and with every sector fulfilling its role and contributing its strength, we can collectively win this critical battle against the pandemic.