How AI And Robotics is used to Fight Covid-19.
                     How AI And Robotics is 
used to Fight Covid-19
Introduction
• Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Robots, among others, play a significant role in periods of 
crisis triggered by corona virus. 
• In other words, the pandemic has unrolled a number of ways for tech firms to prove their capabilities as they are 
already stepping out in the virus fight.
Source: Analytics Insights
Developers
• Many Chinese tech firms have developed automated technology for contactless delivery, spraying disinfectants and 
performing basic diagnostic functions to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread. 
• For example, Shenzhen-based Pudu Technology, which builds robots for the catering industry, has reportedly 
deployed its machinery to support medical staff in over 40 hospitals across the country. 
Source: The Financial Express
What do Robots do?
• Robots that are immune to the virus include telemedicine tools, empowering medical personnel to interact directly 
with patients, saving time and encouraging potentially infected patients to stay confined.
Source: Forbes
Delivery
• Robots are also used by people who shop online and are quarantined at home to carry important items. For 
starters, Meituan Dianping, a customer distribution app based in China, has ramped up its contactless delivery 
options including autonomous vehicles and robots to support certain customers.
Source: The Verge
Medicines Supply
• In addition to robotics technology, several companies also offer drones solutions for a smooth supply of medicines. 
MicroMultiCopter is one of those companies that has deployed a fleet of drones to carry medical samples and 
perform thermal imaging
Source: The Medical Futurist
AI’s prediction
• The use of artificial intelligence also proves its capability and has been used to diagnose the disease and to speed a 
vaccine's growth. 
• Chinese Internet giant Baidu, for example, has made the Lineatrfold algorithm open to teams that are battling the 
epidemic.
Source: Twitter
Vaccines Development
• AI can help with the production of vaccines by analyzing components of the virus. 
• This will allow clinicians to obtain a clear understanding and establish therapies that can be pre-clinically tested
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Robots for safety of the Doctors
• In Italy, Tommy, a robot nurse, helps doctors and nurses at a hospital in Varese, Lombardia, monitor vital signs from 
room apps, and allow patients with the corona virus to send messages to doctors. 
• Robotnik is developing a mobile robot base in Valencia, Spain, through ENDORSE (an EU-funded project) that can 
serve as an interface for remotely obtaining the patient's status.
Source: Healthcare Packaging
Help patients to maintain social contact
• Staying in Belgium, Zorabots is lending an elderly care home a fleet of James robots to help residents connect with 
their loved ones, since visitors are not allowed.
• AI robots have been implemented at grocery shops and malls to help buyers regarding their queries.
Source: Robotics Tomorrow
AI helps reducing staff workloads
• AI now supports other forms of testing, such as x-ray scanning. Various AI programs for chest screening are now 
available that can highlight lung abnormalities in a chest X-ray scan and provide a much faster COVID-19 risk 
assessment than human radiologists do.
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Contact Tracing Apps
• They vary in the way they operate but usually use the fact that whereabouts of smartphone users are detectable 
and thus can detect close contact with other devices. Then, AI algorithms will assess the probability of cross-
infection and then alert users to those threats.
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