Foxconn is working with Taiwanese medical centres to deploy Nvidia-powered special agent workforces to scale the region’s transition to AI‑driven health systems.

With one of the world’s fastest-aging populations, Taiwan faces mounting pressure on its clinical workforce. Coordinating healthcare across clinicians, devices, rooms and shifts in constant motion is difficult, with no single AI tool able to keep pace with the complexity of an operational hospital.

Agentic AI can create a hospital operating system that is adaptive, orchestrated and built to scale clinical expertise, extending Taiwan’s healthcare workforce capacity to serve the population’s growing demands.

Specialised agents are domain-specific, always-on AI systems that reason, plan and act across clinical and operational workflows within both digital and physical spaces. Digital agents act inside systems, handling clinical reasoning, documentation and care coordination. Physical agents, including robots and intelligent devices, operate on hospital floors, managing logistics, monitoring and procedural support.

Under the Taiwan government’s Healthy Taiwan initiative, the country has committed $1.5bn to build a regulated AI-native health system spanning clinical hospitals, academic institutions and technology companies. Foxconn will serve as the ecosystem integrator connecting government programmes, hospitals, device makers and software companies to deploy real-world clinical AI at scale.

“The next era of healthcare is being powered by agentic AI, teams of digital and physical AI agents working alongside clinicians,” said Kimberly Powell, vice president at Nvidia (www.nvidia.com). “Together with Foxconn and Taiwan’s leading medical centres, Nvidia is accelerating the deployment of AI infrastructure that helps clinical teams, improves hospital efficiency and creates a model for health systems around the world.”

Just as a clinical team gathers specialists with different areas of expertise to tackle complex cases, Foxconn’s CoDoctor platform brings together a coordinated team of specialised AI agents focused on cardiovascular care, oncology, ophthalmology and more to help clinicians reason through difficult diagnoses, manage documentation and orchestrate care across departments.

Nvidia’s full-stack platform enables Foxconn’s special agents at clinical scale. The Nvidia Nemotron open models (www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/) deliver clinical reasoning and real-time multimodal capabilities to power digital specialised agents, with open weights that give healthcare institutions full control over their models.

AI agents are being deployed across Taiwan’s major medical centres in areas including ECG screening for cardiac conditions, cancer subtype classification, surgical planning and real-time diagnostic support during procedures such as colonoscopy. AI agent workforces are also operating in physical healthcare spaces, coordinating with clinicians and other AI systems across hospital floors and operating rooms.

Foxconn’s Scrub Bot, an AI-enhanced scrub nurse collaborative robot, operates in live surgical suites, responding to surgeon voice commands and adapting in real time to rapidly changing needs. Foxconn’s Nurabot nursing collaborative robot powered by Nvidia’s physical AI stack completed field validation last year at Taichung Veterans General Hospital and has since moved beyond the pilot phase towards broader multisite deployment. It is now being gradually introduced into additional hospitals as well as long-term care settings and overseas nursing education institutions.

To bring robots safely into complex hospital environments, Foxconn first builds digital twins of hospital facilities using Nvidia Omniverse (www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse/). This simulation-first approach has cut deployment time by 40% and enabled 98% navigation accuracy, creating a safer and faster path from development to care.

“Foxconn is building the AI infrastructure and clinical platforms to connect hospitals, medical devices and software innovators across Taiwan,” said Barry Chiang from Foxconn (www.foxconn.com). “With Nvidia technologies across accelerated computing, simulation, edge AI and robotics, we are helping healthcare providers move from proof of concept to scalable, safe deployments that can improve care delivery.”

Most of Taiwan’s medical centres now operate mature AI systems in their daily workflows.

“Taiwan’s investment in AI-powered medical technology is driving real improvements in how we deliver care to our citizens,” said Chung-Liang Shih from Taiwan’s Ministry of Health & Welfare (www.mohw.gov.tw). “Healthy Taiwan is already transforming hospitals and improving outcomes for millions of patients across the country. This is an actionable model that demonstrates what is possible when government, industry and healthcare providers work together towards a shared vision.”