IHABOT2: a teleoperated hospital assistance robot

July 01, 2023

Infectious diseases spread fastest where people are in close contact, and hospitals are among those places. IHABOT2 was a robotics project to develop a teleoperated, intelligent hospital-assistance robot. Its aim was to help fight contagion by reducing how often doctors must be in direct contact with patients.

At a glance

Status: Completed (July 2023 – June 2024)
Funding: University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh
Principal investigator: Dr. Md Mehedi Hasan
Area: Robotics, healthcare

Why it matters

A robot that can carry out routine tasks at the bedside under remote control helps keep clinicians safer during outbreaks. IHABOT2 is part of the lab’s broader work on robots that assist people. That work includes the sensor-controlled bionic arm and ADANet motion-acquisition framework for gesture-based assistive interfaces (IEEE Access, 2025), and a review of robot-assisted training for children with autism (Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2023).