Can robots help stop the Ebola outbreak? The US military has enlisted a new germ-killing weapon in the fight against Ebola -- a four-wheeled robot that can disinfect a room in minutes with pulses of ultraviolet light. Resembling a taller, skinnier version of R2D2 from Star Wars, the robots are operating at three military medical centers and about 250 other American hospitals are using the machines to destroy pathogens. Sending out 1.5 pulses per second in a 10-foot (three-meter) radius, the robots use xenon, a non-toxic gas, to create the ultraviolet rays that eradicate germs faster and more thoroughly than any human cleaning crew, doctors and officials said. Read more.. newvision.co.ug/news/662107-can-robots-help-stop-the-ebola-outbreak.html
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:50:00 +0000
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