JEVATHON · San Francisco · 2026-09-26

A hospital robot that decides
in milliseconds, not seconds.

JevBOT Rx delivers STAT medication through busy hospital corridors. Nurses task it by text. Code guarantees safety, and Jev supplies the split-second judgment an LLM is too slow to give.

75 ssooner on a STAT delivery than an LLM-driven robot
16×faster per decision: 143 ms vs 2.3 s or more
3×cheaper per decision than DeepSeek-V4-Flash
0collisions in the brake-off stress test (the LLM robot collided 2 of 2 times)

60-second demo. The nurse ⇄ robot texting runs at 1.5×; the race is sped up 5×. Left: Jev. Right: DeepSeek-V4-Flash on GMI Cloud. Same floor, same people, same safety brake.

A nurse just texts it.

No kiosk, no app. Jev reads every message in one pass, with three typed questions: intent (delivery, status, cancel, confirm), urgency (routine, urgent, STAT) and destination. The robot replies with an ETA and texts again when it arrives.

Need STAT meds from pharmacy to ICU bed 4 please
🚨 STAT: On my way to ICU bed 4. ETA about 180 s.Jev read this in 175 ms · new delivery · STAT
where are you now?
614 m from ICU bed 4, about 171 s away.Jev read this in 119 ms · status
📦 Delivered to ICU bed 4. The meds are in drawer 2.

How it works

The robot's brain is split in two. Code does everything that must be exact. Jev makes the one judgment call code can't: of these safe paths, which one, right now, given the people around me?

Nurse texts"STAT meds to ICU bed 4"→ Jev: intent, urgency, place Hospital sim400 people, 30 carts,walls, route to ICU Planner (code)12 candidate 3-second paths;removes predicted collisions Jev · System Onepicks a path with probabilities≈130 ms · input-only price LLM (for comparison)writes thinking tokens + JSON≈2–3 s · pays for output Validate + safety brakeoffered option? still fresh?speed cap near people, always
WHERE THE TIME GOES

No text to write

Jev returns a probability over the options it's offered in one pass. An LLM writes thinking tokens and then JSON. By the time its answer lands 2–5 s later, people have moved, so the robot waits or acts on a stale view.

WHERE THE COST GOES

Input-only pricing

Jev charges $0.042 per million input tokens, and output is free. LLMs pay for input, output and hidden reasoning tokens on every call.

WHY IT'S SAFE

Code owns safety

Collision prediction, filtering, validation and the safety brake are deterministic and identical for both brains. The model only picks among paths already checked.

Planner: JevPilot's sampling-based local planner (similar to the Dynamic Window Approach) plus a shortest-path route over the corridor graph. Every question sent to Jev: jev-questions.md · Architecture PDF

Results

The same 20 real robot decisions were sent to every model, with the same inputs and each LLM on its fastest setting. The full delivery race and stress test were run against DeepSeek-V4-Flash.

Jev (TypeSafe)DeepSeek-V4-FlashGPT-6 lunaGPT-6 solGPT-6 astra
Time per decision (p50)143 ms2,275 ms2,302 ms2,349 ms3,387 ms
Time per decision (p95)373 ms5,080 ms3,842 ms4,503 ms9,494 ms
Cost per decision$0.000074$0.000197$0.000129$0.002262$0.013206
Valid answers20/2018/2020/2018/2020/20
STAT delivery, Pharmacy → ICU bed 4157 s232 s———
Stress-test collisions (brake off)0 of 2 runs2 of 2 runs———

Measured on seed 42 with 400 people and 30 carts. These are single-scenario runs, not a statistical study. In the stress test, both robots have the safety brake off and a patient steps into the lane about 2 s ahead. Stress-test video · Full-length race · Texting demo

Run it yourself

You need a TypeSafe API key for Jev and a GMI Cloud key for the LLM brain.