Review:
Development of Robot Products for Hospital Market – A Challenge for Robot Revolution and its Actual Endeavor –
Yukihiko KITANO
Medicaroid Corporation, Kobe International Business Center 503, 5-5-2 Minatojima Minami-machi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan
Panasonic’s robot new business development group has challenged to develop some new products for hospital and eventually succeeded to launch innovative products to fit to hospital’s ‘Wants.’ Main strategy for needs-finding in hospital was to apply the know-how to improve productivity in working places of Panasonic as a manufacturing company such as problem breaking down from view of hospital management or observation per immersion into hospital’s working places.
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