Foxconn's Smart Healthcare Vision at GTC Taipei 2025
Foxconn exhibited their “Nurabot: AI-Powered Nursing Collaborative Robot”, at the GTC Taipei 2025, conducted by Nvidia. Foxconn focused on the utilization of AI applications, robotics, and digital twins with contributions to the MONAI platform. The innovations are aimed at resolving issues like nursing shortage and efficient management of the hospital.
AI-Powered Nursing Collaborative Robot: Nurabot
Foxconn's Nurabot: AI-Powered Nursing Collaborative Robot was developed jointly with Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The robot uses Foxconn's proprietary FoxBrain large language model for text to speech, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing functions.
It is built on Nvidia's Isaac for Healthcare with the Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module and trained in Nvidia Isaac Sim. The model supports TTS (text-to-speech), ASR (automatic speech recognition), and NLP (natural language processing), and is deployed via the Hon Hai Data Center. Currently in factual trials, Nurabot should soon be integrated into hospital operations by the year's end.
Foxconn is collaborating with medical institutions Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Cardinal Tien Hospital in constructing digital twin smart hospitals. These digital replicas of the hospital environment allow hospitals to simulate and optimize their operations in real-time to work more efficiently and improve the quality of patient care. The application of the digital twin allows further management of hospital resources or workflows.
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Contributions to MONAI Platform
In developing AI models and tools for medical imaging applications, Foxconn is providing its global support to MONAI, an open-source platform for medical imaging. In turn, these contributions help foster medical imaging research by giving researchers and healthcare professionals alike easy access to such resources.
Foxconn is redefining its smart healthcare vision through innovations like Nurabot and digital twin smart hospitals, in addition to its support of the MONAI Platform. These initiatives aim to enhance healthcare delivery through the integration of AI and digital technologies into hospital operations. In advanced stages, the projects are anticipated to put an imprint on healthcare environments while improving patient outcomes.
