How robots help to combat COVID-19

A robot modified to screen and observe COVID-19 coronavirus patients is photographed at the Regional Center of Robotics Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Members of medical staff and the director of infectious diseases department, Paolo Grossi (C), pose with a robot called Ivo used to help patients infected by the novel coronavirus at the Circolo di Varese hospital, amid the the spread of the epidemic COVID-19.

A robot advises clients at a supermarket about appropriate behaviour in times of the coronavirus outbreak in Lindlar, Germany.

A Postmate delivery robot is seen on its route to deliver food to customers in Los Angeles

Humanoid robot 'Prepper' stands at the cash desk of a supermarket of the Edeka retail chain in Lindlar, western Germany, to explain protective measures and to promote solidarity with each other, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic.

A robot helping medical teams treat patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is pictured at a patient's room in the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy.

A robot helping medical teams treat patients suffering from the coronavirus disease in the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy.

Robots have been deployed at Chennai's Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital to serve food and medicines to COVID19 positive or possibly infected persons, in Chennai.

Humanoid robot Prepper is standing at the checkout counter of the Edeka grocery store to explain protective measures and to promote solidarity with each other, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Lindlar, Germany.

A Tunisian police robot patrols along Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the centre of the capital Tunis as a means of enforcing a nationwide lockdown to combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The locally-built robots are remotely operated and equipped with infrared and thermal imaging cameras, in addition to a sound and light alarm system.