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Whats New Over the past year sick patients stepping into the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado hospital in Mexico immediately have their temperature blood oxygen level and medical history recorded. But not by a human instead theyre approached by RoomieBot a completely autonomous humanoid robot that runs on Intel technology.The greatest value that Intel technology has generated for us is the radical reduction of the time to market of our robots from the development stage to commercialization. We previously developed 100 of the technological stack of our robots internally in Roomie but were currently using Intels out-of-the-box hardware and software capabilities such as RealSense NUC and OpenVINO technology.Aldo Luvano Roomie co-founder and CEOHow It Works About the size of a small propane gas tank on wheels RoomieBot makes decisions such as which doctor to direct a patient to and is also used by medical staff to interact with high-risk COVID-19 patient. Hospitals also turned to RoomieBot for a heartbreaking yet welcome use case of technology to provide live bedside video calls between terminally ill patients and their families so loved ones could say a final farewell.Why It Matters Six-year-old Mexican startup Roomie on its website the firm calls itself the first Latin American robotics company to specialize in service robots originally designed the robot to take the place of a concierge in hotels and restaurants. But when the coronavirus pandemic struck last year team Roomie wanted to help Mexicos overstretched exhausted front-line medical workers.In just four weeks Roomies engineers adapted the robot to function in a hospital environment they added vital sensors including an oximeter a device that estimates oxygen saturation levels of the blood and made other improvements such as coating the robots outer skin and LCD panel with an antibacterial shield. The teams quick work didnt go unnoticed Forbes magazine Spanish named Roomie IT as one of the 30 most promising companies in business.About Intels Role RoomieBot runs on Intel-based technology including artificial intelligence algorithms that run on the Intel Movidius Vision Processing Unit VPU 8th Gen Intel NUCs and Intel RealSense cameras. The robot collects patient real-time data which is streamed securely to Amazon Web Services thus available to authorized medical staff.Intels partnership with Roomie precedes the pandemic. Socrates Huesca Gomez Intel field sales engineer recalls When Roomie first approached us two years ago their early robotics projects were running on non-Intel components which didnt meet their performance requirements so they came to us.This year were focused on helping Roomie upgrade their core components with newer Intel-based technology optimize their costs shorten their delivery times and partnering with them on critical technical updates Huesca Gomez says.