{"id":109316,"date":"2020-06-29T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/this-robot-quickly-disinfects-spaces-using-uv-c-light"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:44:03","slug":"this-robot-quickly-disinfects-spaces-using-uv-c-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/this-robot-quickly-disinfects-spaces-using-uv-c-light","title":{"rendered":"This robot quickly disinfects spaces using UV-C light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kl_XZ0iUL04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Disinfecting spaces such as warehouses is especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, but doing so while keeping workers safe can be challenging. So MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory came up with a solution: use a robot that employs UV-C light to disinfect surfaces and neutralize aerosolized forms of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Through a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avarobotics.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Robotics<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbfb.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Boston Food Bank<\/a>, CSAIL mounted a custom UV-C lamp on an Ava Robotics mobile robot base. The lamp neutralizes around 90% of surface microorganisms, according to CSAIL. The robot is initially operated by a remote user and subsequently works autonomously, and can disinfect 4,000 square feet of warehouse space in half an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disinfecting spaces such as warehouses is especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, but doing so while keeping workers safe can be challenging. So MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory came up with a solution: use a robot that employs UV-C light to disinfect surfaces and neutralize aerosolized forms of coronavirus. Through a collaboration with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109316","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}