{"id":25321,"date":"2020-12-02T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/02\/robodoc-how-india-robots-are-taking-on-covid-patient-care-mitra"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T06:00:21","slug":"robodoc-how-indias-robots-are-taking-on-covid-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25321","title":{"rendered":"RoboDoc: how India\u2019s robots are taking on Covid patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Standing just 5ft tall, Mitra navigates around the hospital wards, guided by facial recognition technology and with a chest-mounted tablet that allows patients and their loved ones to see each other.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in recent years by the Bengaluru startup Invento Robotics, Mitra costs around $13,600 (\u00a310,000) and \u2013 due to the reduced risk of infection to doctors \u2013 has become hugely popular in Indian hospitals during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/02\/robodoc-how-india-robots-are-taking-on-covid-patient-care-mitra\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has spurred on robotics companies building machines to perform tasks in hospitals and other industriesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageStanding just 5ft tall, Mitra navigates around the hospital wards, guided by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1066,59,566,62,914,611,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-robots","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions\/25322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}