Telemedicine or Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies.
It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. In this project, we aim to build an easy to use, yet intelligent Robot assistant that will serve as an RC gateway between long-distance patients and their families, doctors, loved ones providing the patient with care, monitoring, & Telemedicine.
The robot itself is a 3 wheel differential drive robot built on a 3D printed chassis and a STM32F407VET microcontroller.
Featuring an Arm-Cortex-M4 168[MHz] Core.
The robot is equipped with a mobile device (Tablet) to enable video conferencing. Anyone with permission can call the robot and remote control it from far away to monitor the patient/family member. The robot built in this project fully occupies these features, calling the robot from far away and driving in the patient’s home to firstly check on him and secondly check on his health and satisfaction.
Our conclusions from this robot are: firstly this concept could be implemented into a real-life product with many use cases. secondly, it is a product customers would like to use but don’t have the will to purchase because cheaper solutions can bring the same results at zero investment like using a smartphone to video conference, Etc.