This is the 100th Aethon made robot to be deployed in US hospitals and the TUG seems to be doing a fine job in its new found medical assistant role, taking on board some of the more mundance tasks happily given to it by staff members.

Utilising an RFID tracking system it has no wireless control which studies have found can interfere with hospital equipment and this also means it has to be fully autonomous.

Getting on with its daily routine of delivering medicines and other supplies around hospitals and tracking usage and stock levels, all fed back to a central system saves tons of paperwork.

The TUG or Tray-C as some staff members have nicknamed it can also be tasked to deliver meals on late night shifts to patients.

Now staff can focus on patient care and let the TUG do their bidding, here’s to seeing them deployed in UK hospitals soon armed with Carry On style voices.

Tray-C is responsible for delivering late meals to patient units.

The TUG never sleeps and has a navigation system that allows it to get deliveries done.

More than 100 hospitals nationwide have deployed Aethon’s robots, Russell said.