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ABB robots step out of the factory, targeting business opportunities in China's biopharmaceutical research and development and medical fields.

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2023-11-01 00:00

More and more robots will move out of factory production lines and into biopharmaceutical laboratories, hospitals, and even to the side of patients to take on roles.

More and more robots will step out of factory production lines and into biopharmaceutical laboratories, hospitals, and even beside patients to 'take up their posts.' ABB Group, a Swiss industrial giant and one of the world's four major robotics companies, recently opened its robotics empowerment center focused on life sciences and the medical industry in Zhangjiang Robot Valley, Shanghai. This is ABB's further investment in China's automation market after spending over 1 billion yuan to build a robot super factory in Shanghai.

China is not only the largest and fastest-growing robot market in the world but is also becoming the largest healthcare market globally. 'The continuous development of industrial robots and artificial intelligence technology provides more opportunities for automation in the life sciences and healthcare industry,' said Massimo Carboni, global president of ABB's robotics business, at the opening ceremony of the empowerment center. The inherent high efficiency, high precision, and infection resistance of intelligent robots can help alleviate many challenges brought about by the shortage of high-level medical talent. Through automation and digitalization, the healthcare industry can not only improve efficiency and simplify processes but also achieve more robust and agile operations.

Previously, through robotic automation technology, ABB has changed the dispensing method for the inpatient pharmacy at Shanghai Seventh People's Hospital. Its automated pharmacy can select 720 medications per hour. In addition, at ABB's robotics laboratory located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, USA, robotic systems have increased the efficiency of neutralizing antibody testing from 15 times a day to 1000 times a day, helping to alleviate the pressure of COVID-19 testing at that time.

'Compared to other industries, the overall level of automation in the biopharmaceutical and medical industry is still not high,' said Jose Manuel Collados, global head of service robotics product line at ABB's robotics division, to media such as The Paper. The pharmaceutical and medical fields are significantly different from traditional robotic application markets. 'The solutions required by this industry are not just robots or mechanical arms; they also need to be built on existing robotic technology with analytical instruments, sensors, or analytical software, as well as functionalities like machine learning or direct integration with some medical devices. This makes our collaboration with the medical industry very different and more challenging.'

He added that the ABB robotics empowerment center located in Pudong, Shanghai will work together with the healthcare research center already in operation at Texas Medical Center in Houston and the research center located in Frankfurt, Germany to form ABB's global medical innovation network.

'The application of robots is gradually advancing from the manufacturing end (of pharmaceutical companies) to the hospital end; there are many points of automation realization throughout this process,' said Wang Tong, head of market and sales for ABB's robotics division in China and head of consumer goods business for ABB's robotics division in China.

On the opening day, ABB Robotics signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Mettler Toledo, a global manufacturer of precision instruments and balances, as well as with Jingtai Technology, an artificial intelligence pharmaceutical company, to jointly develop innovative solutions for the healthcare industry. In addition, the empowerment center will also gather enterprises and universities to provide technology training based on laboratory scenarios and real-world teaching to cultivate new talent.

(This article is from The Paper. For more original news, please download 'The Paper' APP.)

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