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CORONAVIRUS. EXCELLENCES
It’s called YuMi and it was modified by Andrea Zanchettin, 37, from the Polytechnic.
CREMONA (September 5, 2020) – The robot that supports hospitals in serological tests for coronavirus is from Cremona. The unprecedented app designed at the Politecnico di Milano bears the 37-year-old’s signature Andrea Zanchettin, associate professor in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, born and raised in Cremona. In the city of Torrazzo, Zanchettin attended Torriani’s Technological Baccalaureate before graduating from the Via Sesto campus of the Polytechnic. The robot, renamed YuMi, a contraction of You and Me, that is, You and Me, was developed a few years ago by the Swiss-Swedish electrotechnical multinational ABB to facilitate and speed up assembly processes in the manufacturing sector. Zanchettin, after realizing its potential in the medical and pharmaceutical fields, has redesigned and reprogrammed the robot so that it can support analytical laboratory technicians: YuMi can now automate up to 77% of the operations required to perform serological tests. significantly improving productivity. While human specialists can examine 280 samples per hour, with the help of YuMi they can now analyze up to 450.
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04 September 2020
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