this paper, a robotic Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid (MINA) is proposed to assist nurses
with everyday tasks and tackle nurse burnout. MINA uses Simultaneous Localization And
Mapping (SLAM) to map shelves in a storage room and pointcloud using an RGB-Depth
camera. The barcode of the item is first detected using zbar library, and then the pointcloud
is generated in ROS and saved accordingly. Preliminary experiments with respect to the …