An Egyptian engineer designs a robot working remotely to check for people with corona

 

 

6/17/2020

 

An Egyptian engineer has designed a remote-powered robot that can take smears from suspected Corona virus, which reduces interaction and exposure to risk, amid fears of a new Corona virus.

Engineer Mahmoud Al-Koumi, a specialist in mechatronics, came to the aid of the medical teams during the pandemic.

After more than a month of work, the current model of the robot became able to measure temperatures, take samples from the mouth, recognize faces that are not covered by masks, and provide advice on appropriate health care.

Regardless of its use in hospitals, the KOMI robot can also be used in shopping malls, banks, and airports to check the temperature of the hesitants and guide those who do not use masks.

Mahmoud Al-Koumi said: "This is a mission robot dedicated to the Corona, which will work, for it has such a task that it can work on, including, of course, measuring or detecting suspects, whether in public places, in malls, in banks, at airports. It is estimated that he measures a person's temperature even if he discovered If he has a fever, he should do the gesture (alarm).

While his second model has proven successful, Al-Koumi says that the third, posterior model, should be able to take nose swabs and more closely simulate the movement of the doctor’s hand.

He added, "Other than that, of course, he can take the fingerprint of the genetic fingerprint and the PCR swab, completely, instead of the technician or the doctor who takes the swab de himself, right. Now you can take it from the mouth from the right side.

In the third version, God willing, in developing his creations, if he will be able to take it from the nose with precision, it will be as if the doctor is the one who moves his hands exactly, completely, from a distance, of course. "

Al-Koumi hopes that many hospitals and clinics will be able to benefit from his invention, thus limiting contact with dangerous places, usually dangerously.

Egypt, the largest Arab country in terms of population, has recorded 44,598 HIV infections, including 1,575 deaths, and recorded the highest daily increase in infections and deaths last Saturday.