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CloudMind robots used to protect staff in Wuhan field hospital

Able to monitor patients' vital signs and deliver medication remotely

14-Mar-2020

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Some humanoid and others your basic, boxes on wheels.

Performed a number of healthcare duties:

- measured temperature and flagged patients displaying fever symptoms

- checked heart rates and blood oxygen levels via smart bracelets and rings

- delivered medication

- patrolled and cleaned infected areas

- led patients in exercises and entertained bored quarantined patients

Medical staff directed and controlled the robots remotely.

Robots are pitching in to help in other places too.

- checked visitors' identities at a Shenyang hospital in northeast China

- sprayed disinfectant in residential areas in Wuhan

UVD Robots are shipping its self-driving UV-light disinfection robots to more than 2,000 Chinese hospitals.

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