{"id":104139,"date":"2020-03-23T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-pandemic-a-call-to-action-for-the-robotics-community"},"modified":"2020-03-23T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:03:25","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-a-call-to-action-for-the-robotics-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-pandemic-a-call-to-action-for-the-robotics-community","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Pandemic: A Call to Action for the Robotics Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-pandemic-a-call-to-action-for-the-robotics-community2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical robotics expert Guang-Zhong Yang calls for a global effort to develop new types of robots for fighting infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When I reached <a href=\"http:\/\/imr.sjtu.edu.cn\/en\/xy_leaders\/2886.html\">Professor Guang-Zhong Yang<\/a> on the phone last week, he was cooped up in a hotel room in Shanghai, where he had self-isolated after returning from a trip abroad. I wanted to hear from Yang, a widely respected figure in the robotics community, about the role that robots are playing in fighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/coronavirus\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>. He\u2019d been monitoring the situation from his room over the previous week, and during that time his only visitors were a hotel employee, who took his temperature twice a day, and a small wheeled robot, which delivered his meals autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>An IEEE Fellow and founding editor of the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/robotics.sciencemag.org\/\"><em>Science Robotics<\/em><\/a>, Yang is the former director and co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/hamlyn-centre\/\">Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery<\/a> at Imperial College London. More recently, he became the founding dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/imr.sjtu.edu.cn\/en\">Institute of Medical Robotics<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.sjtu.edu.cn\/\">Shanghai Jiao Tong University<\/a>, often called the MIT of China. Yang wants to build the new institute into a robotics powerhouse, recruiting 500 faculty members and graduate students over the next three years to explore areas like surgical and rehabilitation robots, image-guided systems, and precision mechatronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran a lot of the operations for the institute from my hotel room using Zoom,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical robotics expert Guang-Zhong Yang calls for a global effort to develop new types of robots for fighting infectious diseases. When I reached Professor Guang-Zhong Yang on the phone last week, he was cooped up in a hotel room in Shanghai, where he had self-isolated after returning from a trip abroad. I wanted to hear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}