+ DROBO: A robot built for care, not hype.

Pharmacies stayed open during the COVID-19 lockdowns. But staying open wasn’t enough. People avoided stepping out, especially the sick, elderly, or immunocompromised. That’s where Drobo fits in not as a futuristic experiment, but as a real response to a real problem.

Designed by Nuri Badur, Drobo is an autonomous medical delivery robot that delivers medicines to people who cannot or should not visit a pharmacy. It’s not a box on wheels. It’s a complete system that thinks about access, safety, and clarity at every step of the delivery.

The physical product

Drobo is compact and quiet. Four wheels, an electric motor, and a self-charging system that keeps it running for 6 to 8 hours without human help. When idle, it returns to a wireless charging dock, preparing for its next task.

A display screen on the front doesn’t just say “delivered.” It provides actual guidance how to take the medicine, how to store it, or what to do if symptoms change. This matters more than it sounds. Elderly patients and those living alone often struggle with unclear instructions. Drobo simplifies that.

But the product doesn’t stop at delivery. Drobo includes rapid health-check features like a COVID-19 test module, blood oxygen monitoring, and more integrated into its system. These test results are transmitted directly to a physician’s dashboard, removing the need for a clinic visit.

The drone on its back

Urban density creates another problem: vertical access. Drobo solves this by attaching a small drone to its rear end. When it reaches a building, the drone slides along a rail from the storage zone, lifts off with the medicine using a gripping system, and delivers it to higher floors.

This isn’t an added feature. It’s core to Drobo’s thinking solve for where humans actually live, not just what roads they travel.

What makes this design relevant

Drobo works because it doesn’t try to be radical. It starts with a real issue safe access to medicine and builds out the design from there. Every part of it, from the drone rail to the health screen, is rooted in functional purpose.

It’s not trying to automate care. It’s trying to support it.

For countries with aging populations, rising chronic illness, or unpredictable lockdowns, Drobo offers a practical, modular solution not to replace people, but to extend healthcare into the places where people live.