An attempt is being made to clean up ROBOT that tells jokes on hospital wards to put a smile on patients’ faces and help in the fight against Covid-19
- The purifier named Ella was taken out at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent
- She held a ‘spick and span’ reception while communicating with visitors
- Ella had a short trial on a children’s ward where she would tell jokes and sing
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust plans to use one in each hospital to clean the floor and free up cleaners to focus on Covid’s connection points
A cleaning robot robot is joked to hospital wards in an attempt to ‘put a smile on patients’ faces’ and help in the fight against the deadly coronavirus.
Ella’s autonomous bot, built by LionsBot, has already proven its worth during a demo at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent where it held the ‘spick and span’ reception.
As a result of the successful exhibition, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust expressed an interest in renting out two of the devices for use on a parent-child ward.
She interacts with anyone she communicates with on the wards by reporting ‘hilarious gags and even singing’, according to LionsBot.
The trust says it will use the robots in hospital reception areas to chop down the grand floors and free up human cleaners to focus on potential Covid-19 connection points. to be there.
Ella’s autonomous bot, built by LionsBot, has already proven its worth during a demo at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent where it held the ‘spick and span’ reception
Ella took part in a demonstration on Tuesday to see how she fitted into her new environment – she was spotted crossing the Hedgehog Ward at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, Kent – leaving her funny children.
She left young patient Jimmy Edwards, nine, with a big smile after cracking the joke: ‘How can trees access the internet? They ‘log in’.
The robot’s blue LED eyes even start to sparkle and its head starts to move to mock laughter while a playful giggle comes out of the speech system aige.
In an exclusive visit to Maidstone Hospital, Kent on Friday 22 January, Ella was filmed whipping: ‘Circling the earth really makes my day. ‘
The NHS Trust hopes to have a cleaning machine in each of its two hospitals soon to clean the floor of the main reception areas.
Making Ella on the floor means it dries faster and frees up cleaners to clean up touch points – crucial in stopping the release of Covid-19.
The boots are then sent to the children’s wards in the summer when pressure is expected to ease so that they can host poor children.
The Trust ‘s Deputy General Manager for Facilities, Sarah Gray, said Ella’ put a smile on the faces of some of our youngest patients when she visited the ward.
‘The Trust is currently looking at renting the robots that will help free up our domestic cleaners,’ Gray explained.
She left young patient Jimmy Edwards (pictured), nine, with a big smile after cracking the joke: ‘How can trees access the internet? They ‘log in’
She said they are currently spending a lot of time mopping the main floor on a regular basis – especially during the winter months – so that they can do vital point cleaning around the two existing sites. essential during the pandemic.
‘As the robots interact with anyone they come in, the plan is to relocate them during the summer months to the children’s wards so that children can and young people enjoy it. ‘
LionsBot has four different LeoBot families – a scraping expert, a vacuum expert, a silent mopper and a small but strong worker who can pull 450kg.
The 16 different models are packed with fully integrated sensors to detect and avoid obstacles while navigating areas at a distance.
They are controlled by a dedicated smartphone app with preset cleaning modes and can be linked together to work efficiently at the same time.
Once they have completed their designated duties, the smart bots automate docking and charging until they are ready for their next move.
The Singapore-based automation company says on their website: ‘Created to be attractive, LionsBot’s cleaning robots are injected with personalities through their emotional responses, such as through the eyes and their voices.
Our human robots also include Singapore signals; for example, friendliness, diligence and efficiency demonstrated through the interactive features and high productivity. ‘
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In a 2017 study, Seattle-based research firm IOActive found that robots from SoftBank such as NAO (pictured) were more than 50 vulnerabilities
Security research firm IOActive conducted a study last year to find about 50 vulnerabilities in robots made by many popular retailers.
The tools examined include robots from Softbank Robotics, UBTECH Robotics, Universal Robotics, Asratec Corp, ROBOTIS, and Rethink Robotics.
Vulnerabilities included:
- Insecure communication
- Proof cases
- Authorization required
- Cryptography lag
- Privacy issues
- Weak configuration
- Open source robot frames and libraries
All in all, these threats lead to a plethora of dangers, including the possibility that they could be removed and used as secret hearing aids or even weapons.
In the future there will be robots everywhere, on military missions, performing surgeries, building skyscrapers, helping customers at stores, such as health care attendants, as carriers business support, and interacting closely with our families in a number of ways, ‘the research paper, entitled’ Hacking Robots Before Skynet, ‘noted.