BORIS the Robot

BORIS is committed to solving the issue of lack of resources in hospitals including doctors and trained professionals in every area. Instead of having Surgeons, general doctors, and emotionally experienced professionals, BORIS combines them all into one. It can change lives by eliminating the pressure and stress that Doctors keep on their backs if something goes wrong or a patient isn't able to recover. They can take a step back and know that their job is in trusted hands. Working in conjunction with BORIS, a doctor can control Xenobots that can be injected into a patient's body. Xenobots are microbots that are less than a millimeter wide and can travel through a patient's blood. Reporting back vitals, stats, and the overall current condition of a patient are among the many things they can do. They are a combination of synthetic and robotic making them at the forefront of innovation. 

Within the challenge, I am working to solve 2 issues. The first one being "Equip last-mile primary healthcare providers with the necessary tools and knowledge to detect disease outbreaks quickly and respond to them effectively." BORIS provides this solution that is needed to be at the front line of things especially when times get tough. The scale of this pandemic is immense as it has shattered lives all across the world and not only in the US. My solution mainly lies in the lives of Doctors and in the workflows of hospitals. "Combat loneliness, stress, depression, and other mental health impacts of disease outbreaks." is the second issue that BORIS provides a solution to. The emotionally intelligent aspect of BORIS is something that Robotic Surgeons these days have no solution to. BORIS combines two completely different sectors of the medical field in terms of the physical and mental sides.

In simple terms, we are fusing the field of surgeons with the field of comforting patients and making sure they feel motivated during their medical procedures. In comparison to the only interaction of them with a doctor being strictly medical, it brings an aspect of relief for doctors and patients. BORIS will be able to host conversations and look for signs of stress or anxiety. There are many complex processes in the functioning of BORIS both categorized by their purposes. One in terms of being able to perform the actual surgery, and one in terms of being able to communicate with patients. The communication part can be designed off of many of the AI assistants and software we possess today i.e. Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Siri. They all possess complex algorithms that can be implemented into creating the 'human' aspect of BORIS. the right-hand man of BORIS will be a set of Xenobots. Xenobots are new types of synthetic lifeforms that derive their name from the African Clawed Frog. Being created only about a year and a half ago, they are very new to the world in general let alone this field and the applications that come along with it.

There are two main implementations in terms of a target demographic for BORIS and its field of innovation. The first one being the patients that BORIS will treat. The second being the doctors and hospitals that it will be working in conjunction with to ease their workloads. Let's dive deeper into the patient side of things first. BORIS doesn't just have to be limited to specific medical fields such as cancer treatment but it can be involved in general medicine. It can be used at major hospitals such as city hospitals or in underserved areas that are all connected to a couple of hospitals in their region or country. Being treated by BORIS doesn't have to be a 'luxury' of coming to the hospital but it can be used in a general sense to make sure that everyone is taken care of and in the best manner possible. This everyone includes the doctors that need to be taken care of. All of us can agree that being a doctor is one of the most stressful jobs out there. Having the patience and mental capacity to deal with people dying in front of you or knowing you can't do anything takes a big toll on the doctors of this world and this pandemic has made it even worse. It has pulled out the weak points of our healthcare infrastructures and has used them to stab us in the back. Those that are underserved don't even have the doctors in place to be able to cope with situations such as this pandemic. They have no backbone, economically, or socially, to support such a large problem on such a large scale. When BORIS can simplify the needs in larger countries such as America, the doctors from those underserved areas can stay in their areas and provide for the people there. In comparison to the thousands of doctors who leave their homelands to seek a better place to live and work. If the people don't support their own people then as they say, 'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.' This can be applied in the sense of the quality of healthcare in areas and how their healthcare systems are either expanding or degrading. 

BORIS is able to help primary healthcare providers as this is where he will be doing most of his work. He will be treating people there and in cases like this Pandemic, be able to remain at the front lines at all times. Over the past year, we've seen the limitations and capacities of our resources, and concepts like BORIS offer a whole new area for innovation. 

I've chosen this stage of development because BORIS is a really complex project to take on and cannot be done all by myself. I would need a lab and lots of software to be written in order for BORIS to come to fruition. I am hoping that once it's in the works and everything is finalized, it will be easy since it's just software and hardware that needs to be produced. Hardware will be the only concern of effectively producing. Once solid prototypes and production models are made, BORIS will easily become widespread as there is a very immediate need for it and this need is not going away anytime soon. Moving from very rare medical robots to BORIS making it a common sight to see will lead our future in the medical world.

BORIS is an innovative solution because it offers a new advance in two different fields. Innovation is the only way for the world to move forward, the combination of different things in a person's life is what attracts them to technology. One example we can take is an electric taxi. This combines the transition to sustainable energy by using electric cars in our daily lives in urban areas such as NYC. This fuses the two industries together and promotes the switch to electric cars for many. In the same way, BORIS is able to connect these two industries while also taking some load off of the front-line workers that are at the forefront of every health crisis as this pandemic has shown us.

It does not currently serve anyone and I do not think that it will serve anyone in the next couple of years. I aim to keep expanding this concept over the next 5 years. The solution will directly affect people in the hundreds over the next 5-10 years and this solution will grow to reach thousands of people. Since this solution is currently a concept, it will take lots of prototypes and testing for both components of BORIS to be built. The brain and the body. The brain is the most complex part of BORIS as there is lots of hardware that exists and can be conformed to BORIS. All these numbers are dependent on how many patients a hospital is seeing and when. In the case of the Pandemic where numbers were at an all-time high, BORIS would've been extremely effective at carrying out many of the time-consuming and stressful parts out of a doctor's routine.

I am measuring my progress toward my impact goals by looking at what stage BORIS is at and where it's headed. Right now it's a concept but a good way to measure is when it comes into fruition and all of the stages that come along with it. Once it's able to accomplish what it was intended for and can really make a change in the industries that it links, it will provide many signs of accomplishment. 

For right now it's just myself working on creating, designing, and bringing BORIS into fruition. I hope to expand and create a team that will work passionately to bringing BORIS to life.

BORIS will be able to be delivered well because of the advantageous position I possess. Being young and having a passion at an early age will drive me to work as hard as I can and deliver true results with BORIS. There is lots of space for work experience and opportunities for me to gain experience and build a team that will help me with this. I am a great leader with lots of experience guiding teams having been the robotics team captain at my school along with other experiences. These experiences make me fit to be a good leader and be able to take everyone's opinion into account and acting vividly on any opportunity.

Working together and accepting each other's differences is one of the best steps to take towards working well as a team. It is important to note that everyone sees the world differently and maybe their perception offers more insight than yours. Including everyone in any big decisions and getting their input is very important. Many like-minded people tend to think they are making the right choice because someone who thinks like them agrees with them, but in many cases, this is not the case. 

I am applying to Solve to gain a platform to share my ideas and concepts. I want to take this as far as I can and hope that something like Solve will help BORIS get exposure and really get it to expand. Some barriers include the actual design and technology behind BORIS. This technology will change as time goes on and new ways of solving the same problem are brought up.

I would like to partner with a couple of organizations. One would definitely be about how BORIS should actually operate in the operation room. Another would be the brain and its emotionally intelligent aspect. An organization like Hanson Robotics could help with this. We would also need a hospital or association to allow for proper testing of BORIS and a way for it to make its way into regular hospitals.

BORIS is going to be able to change the way we look at doctor's visits and the overall healthcare system. It will be able to save lives not only in general but AI and Robotics will be able to save many's loved ones. Instead of the hundreds that die each year due to medical error, families will return from the hospital in joy not mourning a loss. BORIS works off the basis of self-learning and having a brain of its own in a positive manner. Not the Hollywood portrayed notion of robots and technology taking over the world. Humanity will be impacted by the implementation of technology such as BORIS and it will make a difference in our lives in the coming years and many beyond.