Robotic Courier System Pyxis Corporation, San Diego, CA

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Robotic Courier System Pyxis Corporation, San
Diego, CA

• Innovation
• HelpMate is a trackless, robotic courier system
  designed to perform material
  
  
  
  
• transport tasks throughout the hospital
  environment. Twenty-four hours a day, 365
  
  
  
  
• days a year, HelpMate transports
  pharmaceuticals, lab specimens, equipment and
  
  
  
  
• supplies, meals, medical records and radiology
  films back and forth between support
  
  
  
  
• departments and nursing floors.

• Accomplishments
• Pyxis Corporation, a subsidiary of Cardinal
  Health, Inc. (NYSE CAH),
• confirmed today that it has completed its
  previously announced acquisition of
• the assets and certain liabilities of
  HelpMate Robotics, Inc. (OTC BB HELP) of
• Danbury, Connecticut, a developer and
  manufacturer of advanced mobile
• robotics systems used primarily in
  hospitals, laboratories and other medical
• settings.

• Commercialization
• With 70 HelpMate couriers in use today, both
  individually and in small fleets, Pyxis is
  committed to fully integrating the HelpMate
  system and patented technology with its leading
  line of automated pharmaceutical and
  medical-supply dispensing systems.
• The firm was founded in 1984. During its early
  years, the company's focus was contract
  engineering and research and development for
  third parties, including NASA. In recent years,
  the company has focused on the development of
  commercial applications for autonomous robotic
  products.
• The firm announced on January 10 2002, the
  installation of its 100,000th unit, a MEDSTATION
  SN automated medication management system to the
  University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
  (UMC) in Las Vegas. Pyxis and UMC will observe
  the installation of this milestone unit with a
  celebration at the UMC facility today.

Material Transportation and Station

• Government/Science Applications
• With sponsorship of Congressman Archer, HRI
  has presented the case for robotic
• home care to the Health Care Finance
  Administration. We believe that the
• prospects for Medicare cost containment
  were well received. HCFA has sponsored
• another meeting in which NIA, National
  Institute on Aging, the VA, NIST,
• DARPA. and NASA.

Points of Contact - Jane I Fox, 281-483-4815
-Pyxis, 1-800-367-9947 1995 SBIR Phase II
NAS 9-97007 SS 09-061
Johnson Space Center January 31, 2002
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