The electric claw grabs the cotton swab, stretches it to the throat, makes three circles to the left and three circles to the right, and collects secretions... An unmanned nucleic acid sampling is completed in about 30 seconds.

In Shanghai, robotic "samplers" appeared.

  Under the guidance of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, the Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Jieka Robot jointly developed a robotic nucleic acid sampling system. The system uses a dual-arm collaborative robot equipped with machine vision and force control technology to achieve "pharyngeal swab" nucleic acid sampling. .

  At present, the robot nucleic acid sampling vehicle has been successfully tested, and it is expected to be put into use after the optimization of core functions is accelerated.

(The video of Yue Ziyan made by Zheng Yingying comes from Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence)

Responsible editor: [Ye Pan]