a high-volume hospital endoscopy center with multiple outpatient procedure rooms
How an Endoscopy Center Logged 21,000+ Robot-Assisted Scope Deliveries
A 2024 endoscopy trial logged 21,048 AMR-assisted scope deliveries versus 5,393 manual runs and cut mean transport times while removing 2.18 FTE of workload.
- 21,048
- AMR deliveries
- 5,393
- manual deliveries
- 2.18 FTE
- workload removed
- 8
- robots deployed
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Scope runs consumed nursing time between rooms
A high-volume hospital endoscopy center with multiple outpatient procedure rooms depended on staff to carry clean and used scopes between reprocessing areas and procedure rooms. Each trip pulled nurses away from room turnover and patient flow during long clinic days.
Leadership needed measurable proof that autonomous mobile robots could keep scopes moving on schedule without adding headcount or slowing procedures.
- Thousands of scope movements each month across outpatient rooms
- Manual transport tied up nursing time on repetitive corridor runs
- Leaders wanted peer-reviewed evidence before scaling automation
Eight AMRs shared scope delivery across four robot-assisted days
Researchers ran a single-center prospective comparative trial from May through November 2024. One weekday each week used manual transport while the other four weekdays used eight autonomous mobile robots on the same outpatient endoscopy routes.
The fleet moved scopes between reprocessing and procedure areas on mapped indoor paths while nurses triggered loads and releases at each end. Staff training focused on when to call a robot versus walking a scope during the manual comparison day.
- Eight mobile robots on AMR-assisted days
- One manual day and four robot-assisted days each week
- Prospective trial design across thousands of deliveries
Trial data shows 21,048 robot-assisted deliveries
Published results count 21,048 AMR-assisted endoscope deliveries and 5,393 manual deliveries in outpatient endoscopy rooms during the study window. Eight robots reduced endoscope transport workload by 2.18 full-time equivalent compared with manual handling.
Mean distribution time fell from about 168.5 seconds manually to about 112.1 seconds with AMRs. Mean retrieval time dropped from about 91.3 seconds to about 70.0 seconds. Nurses reported lower work intensity in the robot-assisted workflow, and the analysis cites an approximate 12.8 percent return on investment for the robotic system.
What US GI and endoscopy leaders can benchmark
This endoscopy center is not a Service Robot Co. customer. It is a public clinical trial showing how AMRs absorb scope transport volume that would otherwise land on nurses.
US hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers comparing hospital delivery robot rental or lease options can use the 21,048 versus 5,393 delivery split as a scale reference for high-volume GI units. One integrator can match indoor AMRs to corridor layouts, finance buy or lease with monthly payments, map reprocessing loops, train staff on handoffs, and support units under RoboCare after go-live.
When mean distribution time drops by nearly a minute per run, the aggregate savings show up in room readiness, not just step counts. That is the operational case for piloting one AMR loop before expanding fleet size.
