Medical Crash Cart Robot: Designing for Urgency, Collaboration, and Clarity
Dec 11, 2025
The AI Playground
AI Playground
- This demo will present Crash Cart, an AI-enabled medical supply cart designed to streamline item retrieval during high-pressure clinical workflows. The system will combine ambient speech recognition, natural language interaction, and multimodal guidance to help healthcare providers quickly locate critical supplies.
- When a healthcare operator asks for an item, Crash Cart responds with spoken instructions and dynamic LED cues that illuminate the correct drawer or shelf, reducing search time and minimizing cognitive load.
- This live demo will showcase the end-to-end interaction: a participant verbally requests a medical item, and the cart, powered through a Wizard-of-Oz prototype reflecting a planned autonomous pipeline, responds with real-time speech output and visual guidance. This demonstration highlights how multimodal AI systems can enhance efficiency, safety, and human-robot cooperation in hospital emergency settings.
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