Despite advancements in sensing and control capabilities of modern ventilators, rural hospitals and overloaded healthcare centers can face difficulty in hiring enough skilled medical caregivers to provide effective care. Transferring a critically ill patient to a hospital with sufficient staff additionally results in a worse patient outcome.

As a joint effort sourcing experts in pulmonary care, biomedical engineering, and robotics from CMU and Pitt, our team has developed a prototype to address these challenges. Robovent is a low-cost ventilation system with telemedicine support initially created in response to healthcare strains highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding on this work through active research in ventilation control systems, tele-critical data collection, machine learning, and other respiratory support hardware, we intend to improve the overall efficacy of respiratory care through the creation of modular medical technologies.