Robots to serve food and medicine to patients with COVID-19 in Jharkhand

The robots will serve food and give medications to COVID-19 patients at two hospitals in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district starting Tuesday, in a step to protect doctors and healthcare workers from infection with the coronavirus.

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Developed by Deputy District Development Commissioner (DDC) Aditya Ranjan, the COBOT-Robotics remote control will provide food and medicine to patients without human intervention, according to an official statement.

The 20-bed and 30-bed ‘high-tech isolation rooms’ will open Tuesday at the ANM Skills Center, Chaibasa Sadar Hospital and COVID-19 Railway Hospital, Chakradharpur, respectively.

“Each bed has been designed as a room where medications and food will be provided to patients through COBOT-Robotics,” the statement said, citing DDC.