- Some hospitals in Thailand are taking a high-tech approach to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus.
- They’ve begun employing so-called “ninja robots,” which refers to their all-black appearance. Those robots can do everything from monitor patient temperatures to allow a doctor to stay outside the room and speak with the patient via the robot so that the front-line doctors and medical workers reduce their risk of infection.
- Engineers there are planning to make more of the robots for additional hospitals, robots that could also perform tasks like disinfecting rooms.
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“Ninja robots” is not a phrase I could have ever envisioned uttering in response to the novel coronavirus crisis that’s causing so much upheaval around the world — a crisis that’s also given us such idiosyncratic phrases that are now part of the common lexicon like “community spread” and “social distancing.”
About the robots, the “ninja” part of the phrase refers to them being all-black. They are incredibly adorable, like something out of Pixar’s Wall-E, and they’re currently in use in hospitals in Thailand to help doctors there fight back against the new coronavirus.
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