CNBC March 18, 2020
Key Points
– Earlier this month, a field hospital staffed by robots opened in the Hongshan Sports Center in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic began.
– Dubbed the Smart Field Hospital, the facility can serve 20,000 patients and is a project involving Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, China Mobile and CloudMinds, a maker of cloud robotics systems based in China and the U.S.
– It is a trial aimed at relieving exhausted health-care workers even as the outbreak in China slowed in recent weeks.
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