DIH-HERO provides €1,000,000 to grant robotic solutions that support healthcare professionals in the fight against COVID-19

Currently, Europe and countries all over the world are facing a global pandemic. Together with its extensive Robotics in Healthcare European network DIH-HERO decided to support the fight against COVID-19 by providing €1,000,000 for robotic technologies that can be deployed timely, in order to support healthcare professionals and save lives by satisfying a current clinical demand or need.

Although the submission period of only one week has been very short for this special call 146 proposals have been submitted before the deadline on the 17th of April 2020. After the first evaluation of all these great proposals and fantastic ideas, the evaluators invited the Top 20 highest ranked proposals for a 10-minute video interview in order to get to the final ranking of proposals to be awarded. We are very glad to announce the first awarded third parties , which are given at random below:







Project name:
ROB-ID (Robot for Intradermal Drug Delivery)

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Belguim

Project name:
Autonomous Sanitiser and Assistant Lio

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Swizerland

Project name:
DROPAC (Disinfectant RObots to Protect Against COVID )

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Irland







Project name:
Autonomous mobile disinfection robot SAM-Air

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Belguim

Project name:
Tele-AX

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Swizeland

Project name:
STERY – Portable and agile autonomous disinfection robot

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Germany




KELO Robotics GmbH




Project name:
DisiRT (DISInfecting RoboT)

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Poland

Project name:
ARODIS (Autonomous robots for disinfection)

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Germany

Project name:
UDS (Unmanned Disinfection Solution)

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Lithuania



Project name:
Fast Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles to Help Hospital Staff Fight COVID-19

Date of the award:
27/06/2020

Project duration:
8 weeks

Country:
Spain