Ava Robotics UV disinfecting robot

Disinfecting robots for cleaning hospital rooms have been around for at least a decade, though they’ve never swept the market.  Now, however, the pandemic has prompted developments for many environments, as this piece describes.  No mention in this genre of how UV disinfection might hasten bacterial resistance. This mostly is a business and industry review—e.g. “Ava Robotics, which spun out of iRobot, is following this trajectory by building on automation technology first developed for its self-docking telepresence robots. The company has rolled out a new disinfection robot that can treat 9,000 square feet per hour and operates fully autonomously.”   MORE

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