AI Robotics, Digital Twins, and MONAI Contributions Highlight Hon Hai Foxconn’s Smart Healthcare Vision at GTC Taipei 2025
21 May 2025, Taipei, Taiwan
– Foxconn continues to
advance its digital health initiatives, unveiling a range of innovations at the
2025 GTC Taipei. Highlights include the AI-powered nursing collaborative robot,
digital twin smart hospital development, and contributions to the global open-source
medical imaging platform MONAI. These achievements will also be spotlighted during
keynote sessions at GTC Taipei, underscoring Foxconn’s capabilities as a
comprehensive smart healthcare solutions provider.
Leveraging Technology to Address
Nursing Workforce Shortages: AI Collaborative Robot Enters Clinical Practice
Amid the challenges of an aging population and critical nursing staff
shortages, Foxconn has partnered with Taichung
Veterans General Hospital (ranked among Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart
Hospitals 2025), Kawasaki Heavy
Industries, to co-develop Nurabot,
an AI-powered nursing collaborative robot.
Nurabot
is powered by Foxconn’s proprietary traditional Chinese large language model, FoxBrain, developed by the Hon Hai
Research Institute (HHRI). 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.
The robot is powered by Isaac for Healthcare, a physical AI platform built on NVIDIA’s
three computers for healthcare robotics. NuraBot uses
the NVIDIA Jetson
AGX Orin™system-on-moduleand is trainedusingNVIDIA
Isaac
Sim™ , a reference
robotic simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse and running on NVIDIA OVX™
for physical-virtual simulation,
enabling autonomous navigation, multimodal perception, and real-time
environmental modeling.
In
clinical applications, Nurabot performs repetitive tasks such as medication
delivery, specimen transport, ward patrols, and patient education—helping
reduce nurses’ workload by up to 30%. It also enhances care standardization and
precision, enabling nursing staff to focus more on core patient care and
clinical decision-making. Currently undergoing field trials at Taichung
Veterans General Hospital, Nurabot is expected to be formally integrated into
the hospital’s nursing team operations by the end of the year. Foxconn further
elaborates on this application in the featured talk titled “AI Humanoid Collaborative Nursing Robots: Shaping the Future of
Nursing and Care,” showcasing how AI and robotics help alleviate workforce
burdens and reshape healthcare environments.
Launching a Smart Hospital
Ecosystem: Digital Twin Deployment for Operational Simulation
As
part of its smart hospital initiatives, Foxconn is collaborating with several
medical institutions under planning and construction, including the Evergreen
Branch of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Baishatun Tung Hospital – Mazu
Hospital, and Cardinal Tien Hospital. These collaborations involveconstructingphysically accurate digital twins of smart medical environments with NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries and
technologies.
These digital twins are used across three stages of hospital
development: planning and design, workflow simulation, and operational
optimization. Even in the early stages of construction and operations,
hospitals can simulate AI-driven clinical scenarios, optimize spatial flow, and
validate service efficiency and patient experience in advance.
With
the integration of NVIDIAVideo
Search & Summarization Agent (VSS ), hospitals can analyze real-time video data,
automatically identify medical events and anomalies, generate visual summaries,
and send real-time alerts. These capabilities empower management teams to make
timely, data-driven decisions that enhance care quality and operational
performance.
These
digital twin environments also serve as key deployment sites for Nurabot,
enabling simulation of robot routes, task validation, and training scenarios in
virtual space. This accelerates clinical onboarding and cross-site
implementation, further optimizing hospital operations and realizing truly
patient-centered smart healthcare services.
Contributing to MONAI Open-Source
Medical AI Models: Advancing AI Imaging Innovation
To
advance core AI healthcare technologies, Foxconn has developed CoroSegmentater, a coronary artery
segmentation model set to be contributed to the MONAI Model Zoo as a shared open-source asset for the global medical AI
community. Built on 256-slice CTA imaging and powered by MONAI’s Auto3Dseg framework, the model achieves
high-precision 3D segmentation of cardiac and coronary structures.
CoroSegmentater
can be deployed on NVIDIA OVX™ and
simulated using Isaac Sim™ to
reconstruct heart anatomy and vascular dynamics. It supports various clinical
applications, including AI-assisted diagnostics, preoperative planning, and
patient communication. The model is being featured in a special session at GTC
Taipei, presented by David Niewolny,
Sr. Director of Healthcare Business Development at NVIDIA. This contribution
reflects Foxconn’s R&D strength in smart healthcare algorithms and its
commitment to advancing global medical AI through open collaboration.
Driving Digital Health
Globalization and Expanding AI Healthcare Impact
Through
its collaborationwith NVIDIA and the cross-sector network of HiMEDt (Taiwan
Digital Health Alliance), Foxconn is actively promoting the international
expansion of Taiwan’s smart healthcare innovations. Moving forward, Foxconn
will further enhance its smart hospital AI platforms, robotic applications, and
clinical AI model development to transition global smart healthcare from
proof-of-concept to large-scale implementation—paving the way toward a truly
patient-centered intelligent care ecosystem.
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