Posted : 2021-04-19 09:48
Updated : 2021-04-19 09:48
Officials of Yongin Severance Hospital in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, check real-time location of "Keemi" from the hospital's control tower room. Courtesy of SK Telecom
SK Telecom, South Korea's largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has commercialized the world's first 5G-based disinfection robot in a move to automate anti-infection efforts against COVID-19 in health care facilities.
The telecom operator said it partnered with Yongin Severance Hospital to deploy the robot, which uses a real-time location system using a 5G network to roam around the hospital on its own and monitor people's temperatures and whether they are wearing masks.