The Coronavirus-led pandemic has forced several nations of the world to take heavy safety measures to protect its citizens. Amongst these countries, we have seen some big steps taken in the UK to reduce the spread of the virus and try to get back to normal again. The government converted their Parliament, for the first time, into a video conferencing hub earlier this year. Now, the airport authorities of London’s Heathrow airport have deployed UV-C robots to keep the public place safe for the few passengers who are traveling.
Now, as we can tell, much like the phone-cleaning devices, the robot uses the powerful UV-C light to kill the microorganisms. In fact, when the robot is in work, there can be no people around it as the UV-C rays can damage human eyes. So, the robots need to work in an area where nobody’s around at the time of their work.
So, much like the move to install air-cleaning devices in buses, the deployment of these robots is to make public transportation normal again. According to the report, apart from these robots, the airport authorities have also installed temperature checks for passengers and anti-viral wraps for escalators.
