Covid-19: students in Coimbatore design robot for contactless care

Updated : Nov 25, 2020 11:26
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Students of an engineering college in Coimbatore have developed a multilingual robot prototype to bridge the gap between healthcare workers and patients in the wake of Covid-19.

Called 'A Doctor To Be', it is a fully automated patient monitoring robot, which the students from Kumaraguru College of Technology claim can help doctors collect vitals and monitor patients.

It makes use of AI, data processing and image processing to detect if patients are wearing their face masks or not in addition to recording their oxygen levels and temperature.

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