COIMBATORE, India: As long, jostling queues formed outside liquor stores in India during the easing of a coronavirus lockdown, Karthik Velayutham found a way to maintain social distancing – by building a robot to shop for him.
The humble machine – a cardboard box resting on a four-wheel wooden platform – took the computer engineer two days to make and cost 3,000 rupees (RM172).
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