UK dwelling care supplier Cera has acquired robotic expertise platform GenieConnect and can scale using its dwelling care robots following profitable pilots.
Earlier this 12 months, Cera started piloting using druid-like robots pushed by AI software program in sufferers’ properties, which the agency mentioned carried out 3,000 visits every week to aged and weak individuals.
Cera has now acquired GenieConnect, the expertise platform behind one of many strains of robots it has been piloting, and secured a take care of the robots’ producer, permitting it to speed up the adoption of robots throughout dwelling care.
GenieConnect’s robots assist older and weak individuals with meals, drink and drugs reminders, in addition to checking in on their temper and wellbeing and maintaining them related to care groups and family members.
The robots delivered optimistic ends in pilots, with a 96% success charge for making certain sufferers take the correct remedy on the proper time, 64-80% success in encouraging individuals to eat, and 78-90% success in encouraging individuals to drink recurrently.
Dr Ben Maruthappu, founder and chief government of Cera, mentioned: “At Cera, we consider that digital care, AI and robotics have a key position to play in the way forward for this sector – permitting extra individuals to be sustainably cared for, because the inhabitants ages and demand for care grows.
“GenieConnect has carried out properly with our sufferers this 12 months, and we’re excited to take this platform to the subsequent degree, increasing entry to high-quality, preventative care, and remodeling lives throughout the nation.”
The robots have been trialled efficiently by greater than 12 native councils and 30 care suppliers, and Cera plans to roll them out extra broadly throughout its personal care provision, in addition to licensing them throughout the sector.
The corporate expects to scale them throughout a number of new areas and extra care suppliers over the subsequent 18 months.
Cera additionally plans to combine GenieConnect’s software program with its personal expertise and dataset, coaching the robots with its preventative AI instruments to allow them to assist to enhance prevention, care high quality and well being outcomes in weak and older individuals.
By licensing the robots to different care suppliers, Cera will scale the affect of its preventative expertise throughout the sector, enhancing well being outcomes whereas additionally including a brand new income stream to its increasing enterprise mannequin.
This acquisition and expertise scale-up comes after the agency accomplished a transaction of greater than $150 million (£123m) in January 2025 to additional scale its AI-led dwelling healthcare expertise.
