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In its fight against Covid-19 Rwanda has opted to have robots replace humans when coming into contact with infected persons.
With the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Rwanda is to deploy its second set of three ‘THOR UVC’ robots.
What are these avenger bots all about? As its name suggests, the THOR ultra-violet (UVC) uses UVC to disinfect. Using room mapping technology, THOR UVC is able to go around a given cleaning space and disinfect it efficiently.
It uses UVC energy to kill germs and pathogens that way, the robots minimize contact of persons with the pathogens. So the deployment of the THOR UVC robots will help clean and disinfect Covid-19 risk areas like hospitals.
The robots will also serve to disinfect areas of mass gathering like border areas and market places as well as office spaces.
This second dispatch of robots was handed over on …