The covid-19 pandemic is pushing human bodies- and human ingenuity - to their limits. As patients flood emergency departments and health-care workers struggle to respond, an international group of robotic experts is making a case for some electronic intervention.
In an editorial in the journal Science Robotics, they argue that covid-19 could drive new developments in robotics -- and that the devices could help with more effective diagnosis, screening and patient care.
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