We have solved this problem for hospitals worldwide.  ZenaRx is an autonomous delivery robot that moves blood and fluid specimens, anatomic pathology specimens, slides, blood products and lab supplies across your hospital.

It securely delivers day and night, weekends and holidays and without pulling a single person from their most important clinical work or patient support.

Right now a specimen is sitting in a rack, waiting on a phlebotomist who’s still finishing her floor. Maybe your surgical specimens are waiting on the one courier who covers every OR across two towers. Maybe a patient is waiting on a second draw, because the first one went through the tube and came back hemolyzed.

None of that is lab work. All of it is your turnaround time and becomes your problem.

• Turnaround times that swing by shift instead of holding steady
• STAT orders that must be collected delay routine work
• Recollects and redraws that never should have happened
• Licensed technologists spending hours a week in hallways and elevators
• Nights, weekends, and holidays with no reliable coverage
• Overtime you have to defend in the next budget review
• Good people who leave because the job stopped being laboratory medicine

Right now a specimen is sitting in a rack, waiting on a phlebotomist who’s still finishing her floor. Maybe your surgical specimens are waiting on the one courier who covers every OR across two towers. Maybe a patient is waiting on a second draw, because the first one went through the tube and came back hemolyzed.

None of that is lab work. All of it is your turnaround time and becomes your problem.

There isn’t enough staff, and the ones you have didn’t train for years only to carry specimens or lab products around.

• Turnaround times that swing by shift instead of holding steady
• STAT orders that must be collected delay routine work
• Recollects and redraws that never should have happened
• Licensed technologists spending hours a week in hallways and elevators
• Nights, weekends, and holidays with no reliable coverage
• Overtime you have to defend in the next budget review
• Good people who leave because the job stopped being laboratory medicine

Your staffing challenges recede. No more wondering whether a courier showed up. No more pulling technologists away from testing. No more explaining overtime and delays. Transport simply happens, and your team can focus on laboratory medicine.

1. Predictable operations and turnaround time

Your turnaround time stops depending on who’s available.  ZenaRx runs the same route at 3 a.m. that it runs at 3 p.m..  Consistency and predictability improve throughput and performance.

2. Improved connection to nursing and patient care

Your techs spend more time on clinical work or patient support. Every trip the robot takes is time a lab technician can focus more closely on the patient or nursing. Those hours go back into specimen acquisition, preparation, testing, communication, verification, and training.

3. More confidence and less drama  

Your specimens are preserved and safe. No pneumatic tube. No G-forces. No jam-ups. No hemolysis from a 400-foot ride at 25 feet per second.  Nothing broken.  Nothing spilled or leaked.  PIN access, optional fingerprint unlock, and a logged record of every pickup and every drop-off.  A steel cabinet keeping the samples secure and upright, moving at walking speed.

4. Your best people stay

Staff retention improves when highly trained professionals can focus on the work they were trained to do. By taking routine transport tasks off their plate, ZenaRx helps create a more sustainable workload across every shift.

Your staffing challenges recede. No more wondering whether a courier showed up. No more pulling technologists away from testing. No more explaining overtime and delays. Transport simply happens, and your team can focus on laboratory medicine.

No open-ended pilot that consumes a year without producing a decision. We use proven workflows, simulation, and implementation experience to move efficiently from evaluation to operation.

ZenaRx works day and night, weekends and holidays.  Our Command Center and Robot Operations Center handles the robot so your staff doesn’t need to be experts.

Tell us about your workflow routines, volumes, shifts and where transport breaks down.  We’ll show you exactly what ZenaRx would do in your building and what it would give back to your team.

No open-ended pilot that consumes a year without producing a decision. We use proven workflows, simulation, and implementation experience to move efficiently from evaluation to operation.

ZenaRx works day and night, weekends and holidays.  Our Command Center and Robot Operations Center handles the robot so your staff doesn’t need to be experts.

Tell us about your workflow routines, volumes, shifts and where transport breaks down. We’ll show you exactly what ZenaRx would do in your building and what it would give back to your team.

Most hospital laboratories move specimens one of three ways: a pneumatic tube system, a courier, or a technologist who happens to be free. Each one has a failure mode. Tube systems can’t carry every sample type, can damage the ones they do carry, and can become jammed. Couriers cost money and call off. And when a technologist carries a specimen, you’re paying a licensed professional to walk.

ZenaRx is an autonomous mobile robot built specifically for clinical laboratory logistics. An array of sensors allows it to navigate crowded corridors, nursing units, and restricted zones safely around patients, staff, and carts. It maps your building without floor markers or wire guides, and it integrates directly with your elevator and access control systems, so it moves between floors and through secured doors (and directly into your lab) without anyone holding a badge to a reader.

The cabinet holds up to 16 baskets across four compartments and reconfigures from the touchscreen — specimen racks, coolers for blood bank products, and supply totes in the same run. A single trip can make up to four secure stops across the ED, the OR, nursing units, and the lab, with PIN or fingerprint access at each one and a full audit trail behind it. A lithium battery delivers up to ten hours of continuous runtime and charges intermittently between routes, which means ZenaRx can cover a full night shift and a weekend without a person thinking about it once.

A biopsy, excision or other tissue are specimens you cannot replace.  You can redraw blood but it’s a bad day when you have to re-collect tissue from a patient.  And most of these specimens can’t go through a tube system anyway: fixative containers leak, larger vessels don’t fit the carrier, and no one wants a formalin spill inside the transport line. So surgical specimens get hand-carried, which means an OR nurse or a pathology assistant leaves their post, or the container sits in a utility room waiting for someone with two free feet.

ZenaRx was built for exactly that trip. Sealed containers ride upright in a steel cabinet at walking speed, without the pressure changes, acceleration, or impact of a pneumatic system. Compartments lock independently, so a formalin-fixed surgical container can travel in the same run as a blood bank cooler without ever sharing a space. Every pickup and drop-off is authenticated by PIN and an optional fingerprint and logged with a timestamp.  

The result is a laboratory where transport is a scheduled, logged, predictable process instead of an interruption and where your medical technologists and pathology staff spend their shift doing the work they were trained to do.

It calls its own elevator and opens its own doors

3D sensors and side-mounted LIDAR let ZenaRx move through crowded corridors, nursing units and restricted zones without staff intervention.

✓  Boundaryless mapping across floors and levels

✓  Full elevator integration across all brands

✓  Auto opening door system integration

✓  Safe around patients and staff

Labs at these hospitals are not struggling to support logistics with their clinical staff.

This is the difference between a lab that uses its people to advance laboratory medicine or one that finds themselves constantly understaffed.

Two robots move laboratory specimens and lab related goods making 25,000 deliveries and traveling 2,200 miles.

Book a 30-minute exploratory call with one of our laboratory consultants.  We can answer questions about what mobile robotics means for your operation and suggest the best next steps.