An Analysis of International Use of Robots for COVID-19

no code implementations • 4 Feb 2021 • Robin R. Murphy, Vignesh B. M. Gandudi, Trisha Amin, Angela Clendenin, Jason Moats

This article analyses data collected on 338 instances of robots used explicitly in response to COVID-19 from 24 Jan, 2020, to 23 Jan, 2021, in 48 countries.

Robotics

Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic

no code implementations • 14 Dec 2020 • Antonio Di Lallo, Robin R. Murphy, Axel Krieger, Junxi Zhu, Russell H. Taylor, Hao Su

Medical robots can play an important role in mitigating the spread of infectious diseases and delivering quality care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robotics

Tethered Aerial Visual Assistance

no code implementations • 15 Jan 2020 • Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin R. Murphy

In this paper, an autonomous tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is developed into a visual assistant in a marsupial co-robots team, collaborating with a tele-operated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for robot operations in unstructured or confined environments.

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Autonomous Visual Assistance for Robot Operations Using a Tethered UAV

no code implementations • 29 Mar 2019 • Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin R. Murphy

This paper develops an autonomous tethered aerial visual assistant for robot operations in unstructured or confined environments.

Robotics