Recently, due to this COVID-19 pandemic, many scientists are pivoting towards the subject of eliminating the virus, in order for everyday life to return to normal. Scientists are trying their utmost hardest to help those who are in need due to this atrocity done by the virus, with some of them looking for a way to prevent more sicknesses with vaccines, and another portion of them looking for ways to cure those who already are sick. One group of Irish scientists in particular come up with a new invention: Violet.
What exactly is Violet? Violet is an automated bot that disinfects each and every room using UV-C. What exactly is UV-C? UV-C is an ultraviolet that can stop viruses from reproducing. This is very useful because it can limit the amount of viruses, thus it limits the number of people who get infected.
You may be asking: won’t the UV-C light also harm humans? Well, the engineers designed it so that when humans come, the light stops working, so humans won’t be vulnerable to it. After the person leaves, the light would automatically turn on. This is possibly managed using infrared detection. This means that it is not possible for humans to get harmed. This matters because if the robot weren’t programmed this way, we would be damaging those we are supposed to help. This is a quite convenient function because it gets the job done without any additional side effects.
What can this new invention teach us? There are many people in this world that are very creative. If there were a God, we were created because God wanted us to learn and strive. Maybe this pandemic was created in order to help us learn something. This pandemic led to Violet’s birth, which only happened through hardships and hard work. The solitude way to accomplish is to work hard, and the only way to truly learn and understand something is through pain. Many people are suffering due to coronavirus, but look at the bright side. New medicines and vaccines are being created, and innovation is everywhere. With a problem, there is a solution. And with failure, comes success.