{"id":105204,"date":"2020-04-12T05:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/from-disinfectant-drones-to-robotic-nurses-covid-busting-tech-is-here"},"modified":"2020-04-12T05:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:22:40","slug":"from-disinfectant-drones-to-robotic-nurses-covid-busting-tech-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/from-disinfectant-drones-to-robotic-nurses-covid-busting-tech-is-here","title":{"rendered":"From disinfectant drones to robotic nurses, Covid-busting tech is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-disinfectant-drones-to-robotic-nurses-covid-busting-tech-is-here2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI: For the last four years, it was used for crop dusting. But now, it has a new name and purpose. Chennai-based startup Garuda Aerospace\u2019s drone is spraying disinfectant all over locked down cities in its new avatar of Corona Killer-100.<\/p>\n<p>Garuda has deployed 300 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/drones\" styleObj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\">drones<\/a> across 26 Indian cities, including Varanasi, Raipur and many in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/tamil-nadu\" styleObj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\">Tamil Nadu<\/a>, at the behest of state governments and municipal bodies that are looking for ways to disinfect their areas with as little human intervention as possible. \u201cWe spray in public areas, hospitals, bus stations \u2014 anywhere Covid-19 can spread,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Agnishwar-Jayaprakash\" styleObj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\">Agnishwar Jayaprakash<\/a>, the founder and president of the startup. Commercial pilot volunteers are steering these drones.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, startups are utilising the lockdown period to innovate and add to the state\u2019s arsenal to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Their work has resulted in disinfectant-spraying drones, drones that make public announcements or shoo away crowds during a lockdown, disinfectant trucks, new kinds of sanitisers and even robotic dispensers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: For the last four years, it was used for crop dusting. But now, it has a new name and purpose. Chennai-based startup Garuda Aerospace\u2019s drone is spraying disinfectant all over locked down cities in its new avatar of Corona Killer-100. Garuda has deployed 300 drones across 26 Indian cities, including Varanasi, Raipur and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105204","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}