{"id":1414896,"date":"2022-04-01T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414896"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:00:29","slug":"china-introduces-robot-arms-for-coronavirus-throat-swabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-introduces-robot-arms-for-coronavirus-throat-swabs\/","title":{"rendered":"China Introduces Robot Arms for Coronavirus Throat Swabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-introduces-robot-arms-for-coronavirus-throat-swabs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i> <span>on Thursday triumphantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257349.shtml\">announced<\/a> the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests \u201cwith reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>envisioned these robots replacing humans entirely in the coronavirus testing process, but for now they have been deployed on a test basis in the eastern Shandong province. The developers said the fully tested robot arms will be handed over to local officials for live deployment within a few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is demand from some local governments and hospitals in Shanghai, East China\u2019s Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province, Central China\u2019s Hunan Province and South China\u2019s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>reported, quoting developers at the Advanced Mechanism and Roboticized Equipment Lab of Tsinghua University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the lab, the robot swabbing arms were constructed early in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, but have not been used until now, when the Omicron wave sweeping across China created a massive demand for nucleic acid testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tsinghua University, Tsingke+ Research Institute create an auto throat swab robot for COVID-19 testing that can collect throat swabs, recover samples and carry out device disinfection with reasonable accuracy, efficiency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m0G3D5lFKh\">https:\/\/t.co\/m0G3D5lFKh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CWx2wWPY6L\">pic.twitter.com\/CWx2wWPY6L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1509534770099007500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The bots can reportedly swab a subject in 42 seconds flat, and the designers think they can cut the time down to 30 seconds with further refinements. The robot arm and its sampling equipment are encased in a frosted glass box, which presumably both keeps the samples pure and lessens the psychic shock of watching a huge hydraulic robot arm shove a cotton swab down the subject\u2019s throat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>C<\/span><span>oronavirus test robots were used in the city of Shenyang as far back as January, Chinese state media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-01\/18\/c_139676901.htm\">reported<\/a>, but those systems were not fully autonomous \u2013 the robot arm was guided by a human medical worker. The January reports mentioned Shenzhen and Tsinghua University researchers were working on a fully autonomous system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shanghai came to an almost complete standstill on Friday as the second phase of its coronavirus lockdown commenced, but the first phase did not actually end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFresh official guidance indicated that many in China\u2019s most populous city will now be required to stay home as long as it takes to control the outbreak \u2013 instructed not to cross their doorsteps even to dispose of rubbish or walk their dogs,\u201d <\/span><span>Reuters<\/span><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/shanghai-expands-covid-lockdown-life-hold-city-26-million-2022-04-01\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShanghai, now accounting for three out of every four local asymptomatic cases across the country, has emerged as a test bed for the national government\u2019s handling of [Chinese coronavirus] \u2013 a \u2018dynamic clearance\u2019 approach which aims to test for, trace and centrally quarantine all positive cases,\u201d the report added, making the city sound like an ideal test market for the robot swabbing arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reuters noted that Shanghai residents are increasingly skeptical of the low case numbers reported by the authorities as a growing number of people notice positive test results for themselves or their neighbors are mysteriously missing from the official epidemic maps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shanghai is still officially reporting zero coronavirus deaths, even though hospital staffers and relatives are telling local media about numerous elderly patients who died from Chinese coronavirus, the <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/01\/world\/asia\/china-covid-shanghai.html\">pointed<\/a> out Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Thursday triumphantly announced the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests \u201cwith reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.\u201d The Global Times envisioned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}