COVID-19: Italy's doctors look for help from sleek new robots

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The shiny new robots gently check the pulses of highly infectious patients on life support in the Italian epicentre of COVID-19.

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One of the six robots at the Circolo di Varese hospital in northern Italy checks up on a patient in the intensive care unit, helping medical staff reduce the risk of direct contact AFP/Miguel MEDINA Medical staff in Varese, northern Italy, with Ivo the robot who helps them treat seriously ill coronavirus patients and reduce the risk of them getting infected AFP/Miguel MEDINA"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.

 

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