Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) today announced in a company press release that it received an order for the first Wally unit to ship with the company’s exclusive health screening option.
RAD said the health screening Wally unit will be deployed in a corporate office environment and relieve the need for manned security guards that would have otherwise been needed to perform temperature checks on personnel entering the building.
Steve Reinharz, Founder and CEO of RAD commented on the “Wally HSO was selected by this client for several reasons including the fact that this solution begins the health screening process before the subject reaches the office,” said Steve Reinharz, Founder and CEO of RAD. “Furthermore it’s a seamless addition to RAD’s complete security-in-a-box ecosystem.”
The use of robotics has seen a significant boost in popularity for businesses due to COVID-19 and the social distancing rules that businesses have had to adhere to in order to continue operations, which robots don’t have to.
Robotics allows businesses to automate functions and processes of their businesses from physical robots being able to do repetitive work and lift heavy items with ease and software bots being able to automate processes within different software, each of which brings potential lower costs and higher business efficiency.
Investors are being quick to understand the benefits of robotic companies such as RAD with indoor delivery robot provider Pudu Robotics recently raising more than $15m, autonomous mobile robot provider OTTO motors raising $29m, and Wandelbots raising $30m for no-code robotics technology.
RAD is a subsidiary of the company Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions that focus on AI-based solutions with the company noting that their technology improves the simplicity and economics of patrolling and guarding services.
The company has a number of AI-based solutions that include SCOT, a security control and observation tower, WALLY, a mounted unit for front lobby use, ROSA, a robotic observation security apparatus, AVA, an autonomous verified access controller, and ROAMEO, a rugged observation assistance mobile electronic officer.
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The companies solutions have been used across various sectors and have a number of use cases that include customer service, student safety, sexual assault, graffiti prevention, public urination, trespassing, passive threat prevention, active threat prevention, asset protection, and theft.
The company mentioned in its press release that it’s received its first order to ship the WALLY solution with its exclusive health screening function from a Fortune 500 company and claims that is has a sales pipeline of over 35 Fortune 500 companies and numerous other potential clients.
The announcement follows the recent upgrade of its health screening system called SPOT that has enabled the system to include face mask detection which the company claims gives building owners and property managers an autonomous tool to identify face mask usage, create automatic alerts, and generate ongoing face compliance scores.
The company said that its face mask detection capability is included in its Wally health screening solution and will, at the client’s request, deny entry to personnel who are not wearing a face mask.
