Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence technologies have added a prominent contribution in healthcare services. Due to the exponential increase in synthetic viruses specifically these days, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a high rate of infection and death of hospitals' staff. SHAMS-Smart Hospital Assisting Multitasking System was proposed as the first line of defense between hospital staff and this epidemic. Using cutting edge technologies, SHAMS utilized robotics, embedded systems, electrical engineering, electronics, computer vision, natural language processing, and software engineering to facilitate its services. SHAMS can autonomously navigate, and sterilize the hospital, recognize hospital staff, understand speech commands, deliver medicines to patient room, and afford services to patients. Moreover, making self-sterilizing. This paper studies the development and the impact of utilizing autonomous robots in the healthcare crisis. This research paper discusses the main modules of SHAMS robot. SHAMS showed its efficiency, reliability, and scalability in the medical domain. SHAMS also paved the way for robotics to be utilized in various fields in the middle east. © 2021 IEEE.
SHAMS-Smart Hospital Assisting Multitasking System