Food, medicine production in Thailand may soon be automated

In this photo taken on March 18, 2020 an engineering student configures a medical robot modified to screen and observe Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Regional Center of Robotics Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The manufacturing of food and medicines may soon be automated to allay fears of contamination in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Kampanart Tanpithaksidh, director of Robot System Co Ltd, said that even though the sale of automated systems had dropped 30 to 40 per cent due to the pandemic, the robotics industry is likely to expand.