Robots after Covid

– Dr.K.Thirugnana Sambanthan, Asst. Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

Robotics is the intersection of science, engineering and technology that produces machines, called robots, that substitute for human actions.  There are different types of robots Humanoid Robots, Semi Humanoid Robots, Delivery Robots, Pre-programmed Robots, Tele-operated Robots, Augmented Robots, Autonomous Robots etc.

We have seen many live cases of doctors being infected by Covid while treating covid patients.  Some of the workers at the cremation ground were afraid to cremate the body of patients died due to covid 19 infections.

  Dr Simon Hercules, a Chennai-based neurosurgeon died after being infected by Corona virus.  We all are aware what happened at the crematorium. To avoid all these Robots can be used in all places where humans are afraid to work. 

In most of the developed countries in hospitals they have started using Robots.  Delivery Robots are used to analyze patients temperature, deliver drugs and essentials to the patients.  Most of the Covid infected patients were treated by Robots.  Since these robots can be easily sanitized and reused most doctors prefer to use robotic technology in treating infectious diseases.  

In Hotel Industry serving  food has been a big issue, since it requires more man power.  During this Covid period social distancing is not possible in Hotel, since the server has to go near the customer to serve.  Even before Covid many hotels have been using Robots for serving foods to the customer.  Robot Restaurant in Coimbatore have tested and implemented successfully robot servers in serving the food.  These robots can work 24/7. 

Robot Dogs can be used for herding sheep, guarding the house and it can do number of work.  These robots can also be used in military activities.  Singapore has started using Robotic dogs which has a pre-recorded message to visitors to remind them of the importance of social distancing.

This era is an Era of Robots and post covid the need of Robotic technology has grown a lot.