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Reuters
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Fri, 2020-05-22 00:19
SINGAPORE: A shopping mall in Singapore is deploying a newly developed smart robot to fight the novel coronavirus, not with chemicals — but with light.
While spraying disinfectant has become the norm in many places around the world, the robot uses ultraviolet lamps to disinfectant not only surfaces, but tricky-to-reach crevices and even the air.
According to Derrick Yap, whose firm, PBA Group, developed the Sunburst UV Bot, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic presented an opportunity to test out a robot for a role that was “dangerous, dull and dirty.”
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