Youngsters at Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital will quickly have the ability to go to the South Carolina Aquarium with out leaving the Upstate.Roving robotic know-how provides kids the power to regulate a robotic on the aquarium in Charleston from a pill lots of of miles away.“So, think about in the event you had been visiting the aquarium, and you could possibly see a bit of robotic on wheels going by, that could possibly be certainly one of our sufferers who, from their hospital mattress, is controlling the place it’s going,” mentioned Taylor Stathes, supervisor of kid life and particular packages at Prisma.Because the baby maneuvers the robotic by means of the aquarium, they’re able to see the completely different displays and animals. They’ll even say ‘hi there’ to different aquarium guests. Through the kid’s self-guided digital tour, an aquarium educator walks alongside the robotic, serving to information the kid on their journey and reply any questions they could have.“It’s so nice what know-how can do now, and it permits us to offer actually enjoyable and revolutionary know-how and experiences to our sufferers that they wouldn’t in any other case have the ability to have,” Stathes mentioned. “So, it’s simply actually superior what they’ll do.”This system was piloted at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Youngsters’s Hospital. Based on the South Carolina Aquarium, a brand new partnership with Aflac has allowed them to increase this system to Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital within the Midlands and the Upstate.”We would like to come back away from this expertise feeling good, and there are such a lot of different features of their lives the place they lack management. They lack that sense of management that they’ll have once they’re taking their very own digital tour across the aquarium,” mentioned Alayna Robertson, digital program coordinator on the South Carolina Aquarium. “In order that’s the final word purpose, together with creating that connection between individuals and water and wildlife.”Stathes mentioned she is worked up in regards to the optimistic impression this new digital expertise may have on the youngsters’s psychological and bodily well being.“When youngsters are doing what they do greatest, and that’s play and exploring and studying, you realize, that’s additionally going to impression their well being and well-being,” she mentioned. “Which helps us with our targets right here to get them out, again dwelling and in class and again to their regular routines.”Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital within the Upstate and the South Carolina Aquarium are finishing demo drives this week. They hope to have this system up and working for kids to make use of quickly.
Youngsters at Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital will quickly have the ability to go to the South Carolina Aquarium with out leaving the Upstate.
Roving robotic know-how provides kids the power to regulate a robotic on the aquarium in Charleston from a pill lots of of miles away.
“So, think about in the event you had been visiting the aquarium, and you could possibly see a bit of robotic on wheels going by, that could possibly be certainly one of our sufferers who, from their hospital mattress, is controlling the place it’s going,” mentioned Taylor Stathes, supervisor of kid life and particular packages at Prisma.
Because the baby maneuvers the robotic by means of the aquarium, they’re able to see the completely different displays and animals. They’ll even say ‘hi there’ to different aquarium guests. Through the kid’s self-guided digital tour, an aquarium educator walks alongside the robotic, serving to information the kid on their journey and reply any questions they could have.
“It’s so nice what know-how can do now, and it permits us to offer actually enjoyable and revolutionary know-how and experiences to our sufferers that they wouldn’t in any other case have the ability to have,” Stathes mentioned. “So, it’s simply actually superior what they’ll do.”
This system was piloted at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Youngsters’s Hospital. Based on the South Carolina Aquarium, a brand new partnership with Aflac has allowed them to increase this system to Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital within the Midlands and the Upstate.
“We would like [the children] to come back away from this expertise feeling good, and there are such a lot of different features of their lives the place they lack management. They lack that sense of management that they’ll have once they’re taking their very own digital tour across the aquarium,” mentioned Alayna Robertson, digital program coordinator on the South Carolina Aquarium. “In order that’s the final word purpose, together with creating that connection between individuals and water and wildlife.”
Stathes mentioned she is worked up in regards to the optimistic impression this new digital expertise may have on the youngsters’s psychological and bodily well being.
“When youngsters are doing what they do greatest, and that’s play and exploring and studying, you realize, that’s additionally going to impression their well being and well-being,” she mentioned. “Which helps us with our targets right here to get them out, again dwelling and in class and again to their regular routines.”
Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital within the Upstate and the South Carolina Aquarium are finishing demo drives this week. They hope to have this system up and working for kids to make use of quickly.
