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Arbo Design Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Pharmy Autonomous Mobile Robot in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Arbo Design for robotics, automaton and automation design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design category for Pharmy Autonomous Mobile Robot by Arbo Design. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Pharmy Autonomous Mobile Robot
Autonomous navigation robot for hospital logistics. It’s a product-service system to perform safe efficient deliveries, decreasing the health professional’s chances of being exposed to get sick, restraining pandemic diseases between hospital staff and patients (COVID-19 or H1N1). The design helps to handle hospital deliveries with easy access and safety, using uncomplicated user interaction through the friendly technology. The robotic units have the ability to move autonomously into indoor environment and have synchronized flow with similar units, being able to robot team collaborative work.
About Arbo Design
The team leaders are acting more than 15 years in several areas of the design. Consulting and collaborating in different countries and abroad for global companies as Midea Appliances, Electrolux AB, Whirlpool Corp, Sundown Motors, Buscar Motors, Philippe Starck Studio, DA Milan Innovation Centre and others. Currently they are responsible part of the global design to Midea Appliances. With firms where the team has collaborated, won several awards and mentions of design, highlighting the Internationals IF, Red Dot, Good Design, Idea, Plus X, and others national awards, including MCB (most important design award in Brazil) and Objeto Brazil (most important design award in Latin America).
Award Record
Arbo Design is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Award
The A' Robotics Design Award is an international robotics design competition recognizing good robotics designs by robotics designers and engineers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to robotics designers, automation engineers, robotics brands and robot manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include industrial robots, medical robots, agricultural robots, domestic robots, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Awarded robotics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/robotics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/102672
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102672
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102672
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/222338
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.arbodesign.com.br
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pharmy Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Function
- Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Category
- Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Innovation
- Colors
- Light Gray, Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Arbo Design
- Country
- Brazil
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #102672
Credits
- Team
- Daniel Kroker (ARBO design) and Valkiria Pedri Fialkowski (ARBO design)
- Image Credits
- Main Image: ARBO design; ARBO design and Shutterstock; ARBO design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Autonomous navigation robot for hospital medicine distribution. Its design is a product-service system to perform the logistics service, bringing efficiency, cost reduction and safety, decreasing the chances that you will be exposed and get sick, restraining a pandemic (COVID-19). Its design should provide for the handling and delivery of loads in a hospital environment in a non-invasive manner, safe and with easy interaction to the user, through friendly technology.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by Latin American hospitals, where health professionals are improperly allocated and get exposed to pandemics diseases as Coronavirus (COVID-19) or H1N1 influenza. As consequence, patients receive less attention or the hospital is forced to bear the cost of hiring professionals. Pharmy is an innovator in this market, delivering efficiency, convenience and reducing operating costs. The product also provides the flexibility to be used in other environments (industry, commerce).
- Research
- Desk Field, Focus Groups, Consumer Insights, Trend Mappings. We collect all data through immersive process including consumer, designers and multidisciplinary teams (marketing, engineer, anthropology, etc.). Objective: Bring innovation and differentiation to Latin America market. Method: Consumer-Centric Insights with Design based approach to solving problems. Steps: Research (map and understand), Conceptualize (alternative generation), Visualize (renderings), Realize (prototype) and Implement.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge was to promote the efficient management of an interdisciplinary project involving several stakeholders (designers, engineers, nurses, doctors, patients and IT professionals). The project should integrate both uses, hospital and factory and follow international rules regarding the hospital environment (safety, hygiene, asepsis, etc.) and indoor logistics (factories or other commercial establishments).
- Realization and Technology
- The manufacturing process uses the following technologies: metal stamping and plastic injection. The product receives in some parts that composes it, the epoxy painting process as well. The materials used are: carbon steel, 304 stainless steel rollers, ABS plastic, nylon, armor-plated bearings and LEDs.
- Operation and Interaction
- Pharmy is a single unit robot or network synchronized system, used in hospitals and factories logistics. It is composed by a robotic structure attached to 5 drawer cabinet or chest. It maps the environment and supply medicines at the nursing station. Each drawer has independent digital opening, ensuring safe and individual access. The unit is loaded and starts the autonomous navigation to delivery point through corridors, in low speed, accessing elevators and avoiding obstacles or people.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project has started in June 2019 and finished in December 2019. All project and development has been made in Brazil.
- Specifications
- Product dimensions: Width 460 mm x Depth 460 mm x Height 1100 mm
- Keywords
- AMR, PSS, Product-service Design System, Autonomous Robot, Health
