FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox Engineers in Bahrain have designed a new coronavirus -fighting robot to disinfect public spaces and offices – by emitting ultraviolet rays.
The autonomous machine beams out short-wavelength UV which kills Covid-19 particles by disrupting their DNA in a process known as "ultraviolet germicidal irradiation".
Video shows a prototype robot zooming between desks at a commercial facility while blasting out virus-killing doses of UV rays.
It is able to rotate to give the surrounding a detailed sweep as it moves around the office.The robot, which is designed by Fab Lab Bahrain in collaboration with the country's Ministry of Youth and Sports.
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