Robots in Italy help patients infected by novel coronavirus to save doctors from catching and spreading the disease
"Robots are tireless assistants that can't get infected, that can't get sick," said the Circolo Hospital's intensive care unit director Francesco Dentali.
But little appears to have pained them as much as seeing dozens of doctors and nurses die while trying to save the tens of thousands of patients who have suddenly ended up in hospitals across Italy's pandemic-hit north. This helps explain why the doctors are nurses in a hospital near Italy's mountainous border with Switzerland are laughing behind their face masks while posing for photos with their new robot friends.Some are white and have screens and various sensors in place of a human head.The doctors say the robots bring smiles from the younger patients.
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