Health Robotics Named to Top 50 World Robot Companies

BOZEN, SUD-TIROL, Italy, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Health Robotics today announced that it received additional recognition (this time in the USA) for its global customer accomplishments by being named to the Robotics' Business Review Top 50 list.

The Robotics Business Review Top 50 list represents the most influential public and private companies in the global robotics industry. Innovation, groundbreaking application, commercial success and commercial potential are the factors used by the Robotics Business Review editorial team to select the RBR50, http://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/rbr50

Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics' Executive Vice President, stated: "Mechatronics^[1] solutions represent the future of intelligent machines, and Health Robotics is currently the only IV Robot company in the world receiving such international recognition. Adding RBR Top 50 to Health Robotics' global awards list represents a great source of pride for all of our customers and employees, especially as the only company based in Italy to make the world's Top 50."

Besides Health Robotics, Hansen Medical (Catheter-based Technologies), Intuitive Surgical (Surgery Technologies), Mako Surgical (Orthopedic Surgery Technologies), and Restoration Robotics (Aesthetic Surgery Technologies) also made the Top 50 list within the healthcare sector. Other prominent non-healthcare companies in the Top 50 list included Boeing, Denso, Epson, Honda, John Deere, and Toyota. Notably absent from the World Top 50 list were all of Health Robotics' competitors^[2] that have previously announced hospital installations.

Mr. DeViedma concluded: "Health Robotics recently reached 250 worldwide installations under contract [~½ IV Robots; ~½ clinical workflow software, approximately 10 times more IV Robot installations under contract than all of its worldwide competitors combined]. After it successfully migrated to its 2^nd Generation modular architecture of networked medical devices, its solutions are fully automated, offer 3 to 4 times faster speed/throughput, less than half the price, size, and weight, and deliver payback periods/R.O.I. of less than 1 year."

About Health Robotics:

Founded in 2006, Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of life-critical Intravenous (IV) Medication Automation, winning 100% of all worldwide IV Robot's sales announced in 2010 and 2011. With over 250 hospital installations in 5 continents for its robotics-based technology and clinical software automation solutions, the company has 10 times more IV Robots under contract that all of its global competitors combined. Its unique solutions have and will greatly contribute to ease hospitals' growing pressures to simultaneously improve patient safety and reduce costs. Through the effective and efficient production of sterile, accurate, tamper-evident and ready-to-administer IVs, Health Robotics helps pharmacies eliminate life-threatening drug and diluent errors, decrease other medical mistakes and sterility risks, work more efficiently, reduce waste and controlled substances' diversion, and diminish the gap between rising patient volume/acuity and scarce clinical staff. http://www.health-robotics.com

1. Mechatronics: The Science of Intelligent Machines.

2. Competitors: Loccioni/AEA, IHS/RIVA, MDS, FHT/Baxa (now Baxter)

For additional information, please contact:

Claudia Flaim, Marketing Coordinator
flaim@health-robotics.com
Phone (Canada): +1-289-470-1456
Phone (Europe): +39-0471-200-372