MobiHealth News February 9, 2022
It maps its own sterilisation path by locating areas where the virus is most probably dense.
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials under South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has created a smart robot for infectious disease prevention that estimates virus spread in indoor spaces using artificial intelligence.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a media release, the AI robot is able to map out its own disinfection path in real-time. Through a probability mapping algorithm, it estimates where viruses are mostly concentrated based on CCTV data of the number of people in an enclosed area and their length of stay. Then, it goes along its calculated path and sprays clean air sterilised by ultraviolet radiation, instead of the...