Covid-19: Thai hospitals deploy ‘ninja robots’ to aid virus battle

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. Thai hospitals are deploying 'ninja' robots to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. — AFP

BANGKOK: Thai hospitals are deploying "ninja robots" to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.

First built to monitor recovering stroke patients, the machines have been quickly repurposed to help fight the disease, which has so far killed nearly 9,000 people around the world.