How China used robots, drones and artificial intelligence to control the spread of the coronavirus IAM Network

While most countries in the world are fighting exponential growth of coronavirus infections, China seems to have gotten the situation under control. That's been largely due to the Chinese government's ability to enforce preventive measures more successfully than Western democracies. Individualism, a patchwork approach and fear of stopping economic growth backfired in the U.S. and some European countries. An overlooked factor that helped flatten the curve in China: Technology. Social distancing, contactless transactions, cleaning and gathering diagnostic data have been made possible by automated technologies developed at Chinese companies.