Korean boffins build COVID-bot to shove a swab right up your hooter
(2020/06/23)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/23/korean_boffins_build_covidbot_to/
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VIDEO The South Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a robotic rig capable of shoving a COVID-19-sputum-sampling-swab right up your hooter, so that medicos don’t have to come into contact with possibly-contagious patients.
The robot is remotely-controlled, with a joystick-like device allowing staff to aim a swab at your schnoz and then some kind of poke-o-tronic sliding device to move it in and out of your orifices. The rig offers feedback on the force imparted to the swab so that operators can guide it with optimal accuracy.
You’ll appreciate that accuracy because if you are tested for COVID-19 guidance for tests recommends swabs be inserted into a nostril to a depth equal to the length of your index finger. According to acquaintances of your humble hack who’ve been tested that feels like having someone poke in through your nostril to approximately the back of your skull.
Anyway, here’s how it works. The squeamish among you may wish to turn away at the 0:48 mark, when the boffins .
[1]Youtube Video
In case any of that was uncomfortable, the rig also offers realtime voice and video comms between patient and medical staff.
The bot is suggested as a way to keep medical staff safe and to reduce the need for personal protective equipment and the hassle of putting it on and off. Institute boffins [2]suggest it will be useful for all sorts of diseases other than COVID-19. ®
Sponsored: [3]Kubernetes: Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy
[1] https://youtu.be/kGdkF90Vfko
[2] https://www.kimm.re.kr/pr_kimm_news/articles/view/tableid/news/id/1411
[3] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8472/kubernetes-your-hybrid-cloud-strategy?td=wptl1956
The robot is remotely-controlled, with a joystick-like device allowing staff to aim a swab at your schnoz and then some kind of poke-o-tronic sliding device to move it in and out of your orifices. The rig offers feedback on the force imparted to the swab so that operators can guide it with optimal accuracy.
You’ll appreciate that accuracy because if you are tested for COVID-19 guidance for tests recommends swabs be inserted into a nostril to a depth equal to the length of your index finger. According to acquaintances of your humble hack who’ve been tested that feels like having someone poke in through your nostril to approximately the back of your skull.
Anyway, here’s how it works. The squeamish among you may wish to turn away at the 0:48 mark, when the boffins .
[1]Youtube Video
In case any of that was uncomfortable, the rig also offers realtime voice and video comms between patient and medical staff.
The bot is suggested as a way to keep medical staff safe and to reduce the need for personal protective equipment and the hassle of putting it on and off. Institute boffins [2]suggest it will be useful for all sorts of diseases other than COVID-19. ®
Sponsored: [3]Kubernetes: Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy
[1] https://youtu.be/kGdkF90Vfko
[2] https://www.kimm.re.kr/pr_kimm_news/articles/view/tableid/news/id/1411
[3] https://go.theregister.com/tl/1956/-8472/kubernetes-your-hybrid-cloud-strategy?td=wptl1956
Hmmmm
Woza
"Boss? I have Oracle, Microsoft and many other software licencing teams on the line - they want to know how soon we can start taking orders."
For once I'm glad I'm blind...
Just the _description_ of that sucker filled my mind with horrid visuals of "New! From the makers of the Sinusbot, The Colostobot 9000!"
I think the blast doors on my ventilator shaft slammed shut so hard that they may have cracked my frame.
*CoughTwitchComicalWince*