Hospital wards
Medicine cups and water to the bedside, for the right patient, so nurses stay on the ward.
Strength is solved. Hands aren’t.
Robots have lifted heavy things for decades. Picking up an egg without cracking it is still the hard part.
Meet the hands↓Look. Hold.
Hand over.
Hasta service robot
Hasta is a service robot designed from the fingertips back. It sees what it is about to touch, closes on it with less force than you would use, and passes it to a person the way a person would.
Twenty motors in each hand. One job: get it there whole.
Hands
Every finger moves on its own.
Twenty motors in each hand, and a touch sensor under every pad.
Vision
First, it looks.
Before a finger moves, it knows what the egg is, how far away it sits and where each fingertip will go.
Grip
Firm enough to lift. Gentle enough not to crack.
An egg cracks at about 45 newtons. Hasta holds it with less than one in each fingertip.
Touch
Its fingertips can feel.
Ribbed pads read pressure 1,000 times a second and catch a slip before it shows.
Made for people
It hands things over the way a person would.
Slowly, palm up, at a height you can reach.
Hasta in hospitals and hotels
Built for the rounds nobody has time for.
Meals, medicines and linen, carried down the corridor, so your staff can stay with people.
Where it works
Wherever
hands are short.
One robot. The same careful grip in every building.
Hasta does the carrying that pulls trained people away from the people they trained for. It fits through a standard door, takes the lift, and works the same corridor twice without getting bored.
Care homes
A cup of tea held out slowly, palm up, at chair height. The fortieth round as gentle as the first.
Hotels
A covered plate carried level from the kitchen to the door, at any hour.
Laboratories
Sample jars moved between benches without a tremor or a dropped rack.
Kitchens
Lifted from the cup and set down whole. Eggs survive the trip.
A shift
Ten hours on a ward,
hour by hour.
Breakfast trays
Meals
Twenty-four trays from the kitchen lift to the bedside tables, lids left on.
Morning medicines
Medicines
Sealed cups carried beside the nurse, handed over one name at a time.
Linen run
Linen
Fresh stacks out to each bay, used bags back to the chute.
Lunch, then water
Meals
Plates out, jugs refilled, cups placed where each person can reach them.
Pack swap
Power
Two minutes at the dock for a fresh pack, then the evening round.
In brief
One robot,
two hands.
- Motors in each hand
- 20
- Touch readings per fingertip
- 1,000/s
- Grip on an egg, per fingertip
- < 1N
- Shift on one pack
- 10h