Meet Tommy, the robot nurse, one of six new robots that help doctors and nurses care for coronavirus patients in Varese, the virus outbreak center in Italy.
The robot has large blinking eyes, touch-screen faces that allow patients to record messages and send them to doctors and child-size body, leaving room for doctors in overcrowded hospitals.
Tommy monitors the parameters of the medical equipment in the quarantine room, and transfers them to the hospital staff.
More importantly, the robot nurse with its high-tech allows the hospital to reduce the amount of direct contact with patients, thus reducing the risk of infection.
Meantime, more than 4,000 Italian health workers have contracted the virus treating victims in Italy and 66 doctors have died.
Meanwhile, more than 4,000 Italian health workers have contacted infected case in Italy, recoding around 66 deaths.
Italy is the world's hardest hit country by when it comes to death toll, which exceeded 13,000 until now, recording more than a third of all global fatalities.
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Tommy also helps the hospital reduce the number of masks and gowns used at a time when scarcity of masks has been one of the biggest problems facing national health systems around the world.
One more advantage that the robot nurse has is that it is not subject to exhaustion. Just a quick charge of its batteries and Tommy is ready to work.
It is notheworthy that Tommy was named after a son of one of the doctors in Italy.
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