{"id":196615,"date":"2024-09-24T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/af-hospital-adds-virus-zapping-robot-to-inventory"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:22:46","slug":"af-hospital-adds-virus-zapping-robot-to-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/af-hospital-adds-virus-zapping-robot-to-inventory","title":{"rendered":"AF hospital adds \u2018virus-zapping\u2019 robot to inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/af-hospital-adds-virus-zapping-robot-to-inventory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was created by a company called Xenex a decade ago In San Antonio Texas, where I used to live.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) \u2014 Standing at 5 feet 2 inches tall, U.S. Air Force Hospital Langley\u2019s newest staff member doesn\u2019t initially have a commanding presence; however, after five minutes, its impact has the potential to save countless lives around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The 633rd Medical Group received a germ-zapping robot, nicknamed \u201cSaul,\u201d which harnesses the power of technology to kill off viruses \u2014 including the Ebola virus. Airmen were given a demonstration of the robots functions and capabilities from Geri Genant, the Xenex Healthcare Services implementation manager.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the president issued an executive order addressing the critical issue of Ebola, the 633rd MDG responded with cutting-edge technology to protect the health of the service members, their families and the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was created by a company called Xenex a decade ago In San Antonio Texas, where I used to live. JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. (AFNS) \u2014 Standing at 5 feet 2 inches tall, U.S. Air Force Hospital Langley\u2019s newest staff member doesn\u2019t initially have a commanding presence; however, after five minutes, its impact has the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196615","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=196615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}