Coronavirus care at one hospital got totally taken over by robots

For a few days earlier this week, robots completely took over a smart field hospital in Wuhan, China, set up to offer exhausted human health care workers relief as they care for coronavirus patients nonstop. Other robots -- some humanoid and others your basic, boxy type -- worked 24/7 measuring heart rates and blood oxygen levels via smart bracelets and rings worn by patients. The bots delivered medication, patrolled and cleaned infected areas, led patients in exercises and even performed robo-dances to entertain bored quarantined patients. Cloud Minds Technology, a SoftBank-backed startup based in Beijing that provides cloud-based systems for robots, donated the bots to the hospital, a trial effort set up in a converted sports center in partnership with China Mobile and Wuhan Wuchang Hospital. Medical staff, the flesh and blood kind, directed and controlled the robots remotely via an information management platform that includes a gamified control platform featuring digital twins for each individual robot.