It seems that China could be planning to utilize robot arms to perform various medical tasks on COVID-19 patients that could put doctors at risk if done in person. The aforementioned robot arms have cameras built-in and it can be controlled by an operator even if they are not located in the same city as the patient.
These robot arms can perform various medical tasks such as performing an ultrasound, take mouth swabs to test for the infectious disease, and more. Reuters.com has mentioned that each unit costs about RMB500000(~RM300887) and the creator has no plans on commercializing it for now.
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