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Friday, 26 April 2024

Tokyo opens robot hotels for COVID-19 patients

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Tokyo opens robot hotels for COVID-19 patients
Tokyo opens robot hotels for COVID-19 patients

Tokyo Metropolitan Government opened a hotel with robots for coronavirus patients with lighter symptoms that do not need hospital treatment on Friday (May 1).

Inside Tokyo's robot hotels Robots will help COVID-19 patients showing milder symptoms to reduce the strain on hospitals Humanoid robot Pepper greets guests with programmed positive messages (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) GREETING HUMANOID ROBOT, PEPPER, SAYING: "Let's hope the spread will be contained.

Let's bring our hearts together and get through this." Other robots will be used for cleaning high risk areas known as 'red zones' where staff access may be limited

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