Under a joint project with a South Korean provincial hospital, the healthcare facility will feature a 3D cube-shaped automated warehouse and autonomous mobile robots.

Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital is accelerating its logistics operations by building an automated logistics center for medical supplies in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province.

The Pusan hospital center will be upgrading many of its existing facilities using advanced modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced robotics, and autonomous mobile robots.

The leading automated technology the healthcare facility is adding will be a 3D cube-shaped robotic warehouse for storing and retrieving surgical supplies and medical consumable materials.

Hospital staff member will be entering the quantity and type of surgical items required such as scalpels, gauze, bandages and blood at the first-floor kiosk, a cube-shaped robotic system will perform a search at the warehouse and brings them. Medical staff will have no need to enter the warehouse area to pick up and pack each item.

In addition, the Busan University Hospital will build two other automated warehouses, one for drug management and another automated robotic system for storing and shipping linen used to make surgical and patient gowns. The automated storage facility has a capacity of around 110,000 medicine storage bins as small as the palm of a human hand.

The Busan hospital will become the nation's first healthcare facility to achieve such a level of supply chain automation after the logistics center is completed by late 2026 on a site of 5,400 square meters behind the existing ward area.