Title:
Coronavirus: How can we make post-pandemic cities smarter?
Author:
Jane Wakefield
Published:
BBC News, 11 July 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53192469?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology&link_location=live-reporting-story
From the article:
Robots and drones have certainly come into their own during the global lockdown.
The Boston Dynamics Spot robot has been used to help enforce social distancing in Singapore, while drone regulation has been fast-tracked in North Carolina to allow Zipline to deliver medical supplies to hospitals and telepresence robots have helped connect people in quarantine.
Daniela Rus is head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her lab designed a disinfectant robot, which is being used to clean Boston's food bank.