FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Princeton, New Jersey — October 10, 2010 — RST today announced a development agreement with 3M's Infection Prevention Division aimed at developing and marketing RST's PenelopeCS™ system. PenelopeCS™ automates the processing of surgical instruments in the central sterile processing department of hospitals or other health care facilities. The system is covered by the claims of the licensed patents and includes both hardware and software that will provide health care industry customers with a more robust technology platform for central sterile use. "PenelopeCS™ will become the standard of practice in central sterile processing departments around the world", according to Dr. Michael R. Treat, founder and chairman of RST, and a general surgeon with over twenty years of clinical experience at Columbia University. "We are fortunate to have 3M as an integrated partner who shares our vision to provide robotic services to the hospital marketplace," said Jack Kaplan, president of RST. "3M can provide the customer face and marketing knowledge to make PenelopeCS™ a success. In addition, 3M can further enable and expand this product platform through access to their broad technology base." About the Central Sterile Processing Department In order to maintain operating room efficiency on a daily basis, one area that often gets overlooked is the central sterile processing department. This department is where used/dirty surgical instruments are cleaned, sorted, inspected, repacked into containers, and sterilized for use in the next operation. This department has full responsibility for ensuring that equipment sets are delivered to the OR complete, sterile, and on time. This is a very complex manufacturing type process that is currently done manually.
PenelopeCS™ automates key aspects of the central sterile processing department.
The operating room is the major profit center of the hospital, but it depends on the central sterile processing department. PenelopeCS™ will reduce manpower bottlenecks in the central sterile processing department and reduce the cost of processing instrument sets. By drastically reducing instrument set packing errors, the system will also result in better clinical quality in the operating room.
About Robotic Systems & Technologies, Inc RST is an early stage medical technology company whose objective is to improve hospital efficiency by robotic automation of the sterile supply process. About 3M Infection Prevention 3M Infection Prevention Division is truly on a mission to help reduce healthcare-associated infections through its infection prevention solutions. With its system of people, products and processes, 3M remains a trusted partner committed to helping hospitals reduce the risk of infections, improve patient outcomes, and control their bottom lines. Learn more at www.3m.com/infectionprevention.
There's a new worker in sterile supply. Click here to learn more about PenelopeCS, RST's exciting new product for sterile supply. 
Hello, my name is Penelope.
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PenelopeCS is ready for action! RST is seeking partner hospitals to participate in our PenelopeCS Pilot Program. Help lead the way and
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PenelopeCS is featured in the latest issue of OR Manager. The leading international publication on OR management weighs in on RST's exciting new product, PenelopeCS. Looking for a little background on sterile supply? Here's a brief overview of this critical, yet often overlooked, hospital department. Or click here to watch the movie. 
Check out our new series of articles by RST Founder Dr. Michael Treat, examining visions for the
future of healthcare. The first article is titled Robots and Healthcare, Present and Future. RST and SRI International join forces for a first-ever demonstration of unmanned telesurgery involving a robotic surgeon and a robotic scrub technician. Click here to watch the movie. 
