Telepresence robot enables COVID-19 patients to talk to their loved ones
Researchers of the Integrated Systems Engineering Group of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a telepresence robot that enables people suffering from COVID-19 to talk to their loved ones.
Although this scientific team has been working in social robotics for more than a decade within the ROSI project, they have provided this new design with additional functions in order to adapt it to the pandemic needs, with the aim of facilitating the work of professionals in nursing homes and hospitals. We have enabled people that are isolated in a room to have a video call with relatives and friends without risks and regardless of their ability to use new technologies , says one of the main researchers of this project, Juan Pedro Bandera, Professor of the School of Telecommunications.