Automate transport routes, win back nursing time
hospOS guides robots from different manufacturers through your hospital — including elevators and doors, in your own data center, even without an internet connection.
Transport eats up the time that's missing at the bedside
In a study of 1,629 documented cases, 77.15% of hospital transports were carried out manually — by staff who leave the ward to do so. Lab samples, medication, blood products, records, consumables. Every trip takes time, and every trip is repeated.
Source: Sommer et al., Nursing Reports 14 (1), 2024, DOI 10.3390/nursrep14010021
Three workflows hospOS covers
Lab samples
- 1The ward places a request
- 2The robot drives to the ward
- 3The sample is loaded and secured
- 4Trip to the lab via the elevator
- 5Handover and confirmation of receipt
Medication and supplies
- 1Order from the pharmacy or the storeroom
- 2Loading
- 3Trip to the destination ward
- 4Removal by authorized staff
- 5Return to the charging station
Directions at reception
- 1A visitor asks by voice or touch
- 2hospOS identifies the ward and the route
- 3The robot guides or explains
- 4The request feeds into the analytics
What hospOS handles in your hospital
- Accept and distribute tasks across manufacturers and floors.
- Control elevators: ready-made integrations for KONE, Schindler, NewLift, and Reimann. Doors and other building systems run via relay connection.
- Operate robots from different manufacturers in one fleet: ready-made integrations for Keenon, AutoXing, OrionStar, and temi.
- Map permissions and roles, from ward-level access to hospital management, with logging of every action.
- Analyze: live fleet status, utilization, faults, scheduled reports sent automatically by email.
Robots
Elevators
Your data stays where you want it
hospOS runs in the cloud, in your data center, or fully offline. In offline operation, there is no external connection; voice recordings, camera images, and task data do not leave the building.
This also applies to robots from manufacturers outside the EU: the connection to the manufacturer cloud can be cut, and Axiona takes over control locally.
For KRITIS facilities and under NIS-2: role-based access, complete logging, auditable operation.
The data protection assessment of service robots in hospitals has been published with contributions from Athegus:
Buchner, Schmidt, Wilhelm, DuD 49 (8), 2025, DOI 10.1007/s11623-025-2133-0
Who is responsible in day-to-day operation
Your local integrator supplies the robots, handles installation and training, and takes care of ongoing support. You have one point of contact and one contract for the entire solution.
Athegus supplies the software underneath, maintains the integrations with robots and building systems, and supports your integrator with technical questions behind the scenes.
You remain free to choose: which robot type for which process, which integrator, which operating mode. Changing manufacturers does not mean changing systems.
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Used in everyday hospital operations
Kliniken am Goldenen Steig, Freyung
Reference installation, 2023 to 2025. Autonomous elevator rides via the KONE integration, mixed fleet of Keenon T3, Keenon W3, and temi v2, on-premise operation.
Arberlandklinik, Viechtach
Reference installation, 2023 to 2025. OrionStar with AutoDoor integration and Aldebaran Pepper.
80.68%
of lab sample transports were handled by the robot in hospOS use at the reference hospitals.
The platform is documented in peer-reviewed publications, including “hospOS: A Platform for Service Robot Orchestration in Hospitals – Saving Time of Nurses” (ICT4AWE, DOI 10.1007/978-3-032-10685-8_12).
From inquiry to operation
- 1
Initial consultation
30 minutes on your workflows and which of them pay off.
- 2
Site survey
Check routes, doors, network, and elevators on site. For the elevator integration, we work with a fixed checklist.
- 3
Scoping
Which processes first, which robot type for each process, which operating mode.
- 4
Quote
Through your integrator, with hardware and software in one package.
- 5
Installation and training
Setup, integration with elevators and doors, onboarding for the wards.
- 6
Operation
Support through your integrator, analytics and reports via the portal.
We'll show you on your floor plan
In the initial consultation, we clarify which routes pay off in your hospital and what the elevators need to support them.