During the third Healthy Start colloquium on 25 September at Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, we discussed the children’s hospital of the future with a group of over 100 scientists, doctors, nurses, students, professionals, innovators, experts and robots(!) from the Netherlands, England, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. The colloquium was moderated by Healthy Start Ambition Leads Rob Taal and Saba Hinrichs.