Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Liu Hao, a researcher at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have jointly published a report on the development of a robot with an intelligent throat swab in the European Respiratory Journal.
The report concluded that the quality of the throat swab collected by the intelligent robot was as good as that by human hand, and could overcome the problem of human hand collection.
Intelligent robot operators can remotely collect swab samples from suspected or confirmed patients to reduce cross-infection.
According to the corresponding author, vice President of the guangzhou institute of respiratory health Li Shiyue introduction, because will be coronavirus highly infectious, close contact with the patient's medical staff, in the pharyngeal swab samples collected, easy to cause the cross infection of secondary, at the same time also can because of panic and collection and different levels, so that the sample will be the problem of false negative.In order to further protect medical staff and establish standard chemical machine robot acquisition process, intelligent swallow swab robot is jointly developed by guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health and Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences with automatic intelligent robot arm technology.
Operators of the intelligent robots will be able to collect swab samples from suspected or confirmed patients by remote control to reduce cross-infection, Li said.Through clinical application and research, the best acquisition research has found that swabs, intelligent robot manipulator can be controlled when collecting the best strength, reduce the adverse reactions due to too strong, too thin power acquisition in poor quality of the problem, "the most important thing is that machine (machinery) collected from the collection of the swab the discovery of quality and pathogens is not inferior to human collection, conclusion is intelligent robot pharyngeal swab collection can be effectively applied to clinical."
Ms. Lee pointed out that the application and related research of the throat swab robot project had been recognized by peers at home and abroad, and she would continue to develop and improve it in the future. She hoped to continue to contribute to the global fight against the novel Coronavirus epidemic.
