Robot to take over meal delivery, medication to Coronavirus patients

Alexandra hospital in Singapore is set to make use of robots to distribute meals and medication in order to reduce exposure of health workers to Covid-19.

A second robot will be task with the responsibility of cleaning and chatting with patients in four different languages including English.

The hospital spokesperson said in a disclosure that the robots that will distribute meals and medication will resume it’s duty by the end of month.

14 suspected cases of Covid-19 in the hospital are in isolation according to the spokesperson, the robot by name BeamPro will be incharge of two isolation ward.

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