Now many people have died from COVID-19. We have tried many different ways to stop it from spreading. We are even making vaccines, but that is isn’t it. Robots are now helping us too.
A professor at Trinity College Dublin and his colleagues are focusing on if they can equip one of their robot’s, Stevie, an ultraviolet light that could be powerful enough to kill pathogens, but not hurt the humans. Ultraviolet light at wavelengths between 200 and 280 nanometers is also called a UV-C light. It can cause DNA to change its shape, or act like scissors that cut through them.
Hospitals have machines that sterilize the rooms that are mostly empty because the light can cause sunburns that can lead to skin cancer. Which means that they cannot clean areas in the hospital such as the waiting room.
So, the team started to draw a design for a new robot that could navigate by itself and work alongside humans but what was different is that is equipped with a UV-C light in it. They would this call this robot Violet.