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Monday, July 05, 2004

AP Wire | 07/05/2004 | Courier robots get traction in hospitals after fits and starts

AP Wire | 07/05/2004 | Courier robots get traction in hospitals after fits and starts

A cart sits apparently abandoned near a pair of swinging doors. At the push of a button, it says, "thank you" and rolls itself through a door held open by a worker and into the pharmacy.

The TUG has finished its latest delivery.

The tractor-trailer-like TUG, which looks like a vacuum cleaner mated to a cabinet, is the latest robot that can be found plying the hallways of hospitals nationwide.

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