StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 154 DishwasherLight is a dishwasher designer and manufacturer whose equipment arranges dishes by degree of debris and dirtiness and applies progressively more soap, hot water and steam onto dirtier dishes. The biggest time-saving functionality of this model of dishwasher is the robotic arm which arranges and re-arranges plates by degree of dirtiness, after being fed the dishes through a mail-type slot opening." CEO QUOTE " You will never again need to bend over and arrange dishes. The robotic arm does it for you. The dishwasher is super environmentally friendly: the mobile nozzles only apply as little soap and water as possible on lightly soiled dishes. And best of all, you can almost through the dishes through the slot in the door of the dishwasher: a robotic arm softens the drop and then places the dirty dish in the most appropriate location to minimise water and soap waste, " said DishwasherLight founder and CEO Disana Lightbourne . Tradit...

StartupRealities No 152 CareAutomation is a care home developer and operator which focuses on designing and constructing semi-automated buildings with fully-automated key function support. Mini-cranes and gantries are installed in all rooms and corridors to allow lifting residents when and where necessary. All beds can move on rails from rooms into corridors. And toilet service is fully-automated, partly because care home residents feel less embarrassed when served by a robot than when supported by a human helper. CEO QUOTE "We've been accused of making elderly care soul-less. That's baloney! We bring back the soul into human interaction with care home residents by making communication meaningful, not centred on and limited by basic bodily functions." - said CareAutomation founder and CEO Carey Autoine. Nursing home in Norway (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 34 TestAtRest is a drive-thru medical testing company which uses robots to take samples from customers at specially-designed drive-through stations. Customers don't need to leave their car to give a sample, e.g. a mouth swab. Instead, a robotic arm in a disposable sanitary cover leans over through the car window and customers are merely required to follow the verbal instructions of the robot. CEO QUOTE "The idea for TestAtRest came out of necessity during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in early 2020," said company founder and CEO Tess Rosso. "But even in normal times it saves a lot of time for nurses and other medical practitioners who would be more needed for other activities that require their human expertise. A robot would actually be more reliable for this type of task as it is unlikely to mix up sample labels, which unfortunately sometimes happens with human staff," noted Rosso. Atlas robot (Source: Wikipedia )