Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image courtesy : Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
South Korean researchers have successfully developed a remote-controlled robot system for remotely sampling upper respiratory tract coronavirus specimens. This robot can be used to detect various coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 the virus responsible for the disease covid. StayGate is naming the robot system coridesar (short for coronavirus detection and sample collection robot system).
Yonhap News Agency reported on 23 June 2020 that the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said on 23 June that the robot system is composed of a "master machine" operated by medical staff and a "slave machine" that the patient directly contacts, uses remote control technology, and supports a connected call function.
Medical staff do not need to directly contact the patient. They can sample from the patient's mouth and nose through the operation of the mother machine, and then confirm the position of the sampling swab in real time through the video to improve the detection safety and accuracy.
Coridesar is jointly developed by the Daegu Fusion Technology Research Center and the research team of Dongguk University School of Medicine. The research team said that the sampling robot can greatly reduce the risk of medical staff being infected, and is expected to be widely used in the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
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