{"id":910091,"date":"2026-09-29T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910091\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:36:21","slug":"kawasaki-heavys-hospital-robots-save-2700-hours-of-work-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910091\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki Heavy&#8217;s hospital robots save 2,700 hours of work in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Machines handling delivery or cleaning can help ease Japan&#8217;s health care labor crunch<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260928N robot carrying medicine\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Forro, developed by Kawasaki Heavy, transports medications and lab samples inside a hospital.\u00a0(Photo by Eisaku Nitta)<\/p>\n<p>EISAKU NITTA<\/p>\n<p>September 29, 2026 05:32 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; As healthcare institutions in Japan increasingly turn to robots to fill labor gaps, Kawasaki Heavy Industries has begun mass production of robots that transport medical samples and medications from one corner of a hospital to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care Machines handling delivery or cleaning can help ease Japan&#8217;s health care labor crunch The Forro, developed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33873,129511,64,63,137,500,478186,4082,51501,941,144556,17895,6624],"class_list":["post-910091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-33873","tag-129511","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-heavys","tag-hospital","tag-hours","tag-japan","tag-kawasaki","tag-robots","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}