Robot designers pose for a photo with the robot trolley at the Rafic Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, May 6, 2020. The Lebanese University (LU) launched on Wednesday a robot trolley invented by the university's students to help doctors and nurses in reducing their contact with COVID-19 patients and minimizing their risk of infection with the virus. (Photo by Bilal Jawich/Xinhua)
The Lebanese University (LU) launched on Wednesday a robot trolley invented by the university’s students to help doctors and nurses in reducing their contact with COVID-19 patients and minimizing their risk of infection with the virus.
The trolley can be controlled through a mobile application and it allows doctors and nurses to send the robot into patients’ rooms to deliver food and medicines to infected people.
“The job of this robot is to reduce contact among doctors, nurses and patients. Also, doctors and nurses won’t have to use protective gear … they can just send whatever they want to patients using this trolley,” Majd Dhainy, one of the LU students who contributed to this invention, told Xinhua.
Director of the Lebanese University Fouad Ayoub told Xinhua that the university has supported this invention in a bid to help volunteers working with COVID-19 patients.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan said that the ministry has issued earlier in the day a platform with a university hospital in China aimed at diagnosing COVID-19 suspects through city scan by using Artificial Intelligence.
Lebanon has been fighting against COVID-19 since February 21 and the country has been able to contain the virus so far with only 750 infections registered and 25 death cases.
