RP-7 Remote Viewing System For Doctors And Daddies
A robot that was originally used by doctors to remotely perform work allowed a soldier in Baghdad to interact with his newborn baby in Texas.
An RP-7 Remote Viewing Robotic System presents wireless mobile robot thanks to which a doctor can be in two places at once. And now that system helped Sgt. Erik Lloyd meet his seven years old son Blake on April 10.
RP-7 controlled at a remote viewing station can move to any direction and serves as a medium between a controller and his stuff, patients (if he’s a physician), family members, anyone.
While Lloyd was at a computer screen in Iraq, his wife Kristi was near an RP-7 in a conference room at Brooke Army Medical Center to show the soldier boy. Lloyd used a joystick connected to a laptop for controlling the robot’s digital high resolution camera to zoom in or out, get different perspectives and focus on the son.
But the real expert on using the robot is Army Maj. Kevin Chung, who is a medical
director for the burn intensive care unit at Brooke. Chung uses it from home, being on duty assignments, or at conferences from so that to get in touch with the Intensive Care Unit.
The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), is evaluating how this technology can be better used in a military medical setting. Residents, nurses, physicians, members’ families at ISR reported that they were satisfied with the functionality of RP-7, and agreed that the robot improved patient care, performed good audio and video quality, saved time and was better than interaction by telephone.
As an ideal bandwidth of 600 kilobytes per second is recommended in both directions, there can be problems to deploy the system, let’s say, to an Army hospital in Iraq. Also such Telepresence is not limited to the military or commercial sectors, as well as it is not yet available commercially.
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