Solution · Healthcare
Meals, linen, waste, sterile goods, samples, medication: a hospital moves an enormous amount of material, and much of it moves on the legs of clinical staff. werob integrates transport, cleaning and disinfection robots from real manufacturers into the building you already have, so those minutes go back to patients.
1.841
hospitals in Germany
Solution · Healthcare
Germany runs 1,841 hospitals with 472,900 beds and roughly 17.5 million inpatient cases a year (Destatis, reporting year 2024), and the constraint in almost all of them is people rather than beds. A large share of the work that fills a shift is not clinical at all: fetching a set of sterile instruments, walking a sample to the lab, chasing a missing meal trolley, pushing linen to the basement. That work is repetitive, mapped to fixed routes and fixed times, and it is exactly the shape of work a robot does well. The clinical judgement stays with the staff; the corridor kilometres do not have to.
Heavy automated guided vehicles move roll containers between central kitchen, ward, CSSD, pharmacy, laundry and waste on a fixed timetable, including nights and weekends. Platforms in this class carry up to 500 kg and lift the trolley clear of the floor.
Smaller courier robots take the last mile that the big vehicles cannot: a sample to the lab, a medication tray to the ward, a document to the office. Compartments are lockable, and every handover is logged.
Autonomous scrubbers document large-area floor cleaning route by route. UV-C robots are specified as a supplement after terminal cleaning, never as a replacement for manual wipe disinfection.
The part that actually decides a hospital project: lift interfacing, automatic and fire doors, coverage across the building, charging positions, hygiene of the container and a handover record. That integration work is what werob does.
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| What the operator described | Hardware match | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Automated guided vehicles run the supply timetable between central kitchen, ward, CSSD and laboratory, carrying roll containers around the clock instead of a porter pushing them.” | MLR Caesar Hospital II · DS Automotion CAREY | Around the clock | Available |
| “A courier robot takes the ward last mile with lockable compartments: samples to the lab, medication to the ward, each handover logged.” | Robotise JEEVES · DS Automotion SALLY courier | Per shift | Available |
| “A UV-C robot runs an additional irradiation cycle in the empty room after terminal cleaning, with dose and dwell time documented per waypoint.” | UVD Robots | After terminal clean | Available |
Healthcare is a newly available werob solution. Hardware and cadence are representative; per-site scope is set in your spec. The figure above describes the addressable market in Germany (1,841 hospitals, Destatis, reporting year 2024), not live deployments. UV-C acts only on directly irradiated surfaces and supplements manual wipe disinfection under the KRINKO recommendations rather than replacing it. Lift and door integration is scoped per building; no manufacturer ships it as an off-the-shelf feature.
Start
Describe the routes, the payload and the building in plain language. First spec in 48 hours, first robot on site in eight weeks.