Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Robotics and Machine Vision could Combat Its Spread
利用機(jī)器人和機(jī)器視覺抗擊新冠肺炎大流行，阻止其蔓延

Robotics and machine vision play an important role in fighting the COVID -19 pandemic. Over one million people globally have been infected with COVID -19 virus.  As the world continues to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, leveraging robotics and machine vision technology can be a significant solution to safeguard people, control and prevent the spread of the virus.These cutting-edge technologies not only help in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing processes but also inspect, identify, recognize, diagnose, provide assistance in treating the COVID patients.

機(jī)器人技術(shù)和機(jī)器視覺在對抗新冠肺炎大流行中起著重要作用。全球已有超過100萬人感染了新冠病毒。隨著世界繼續(xù)抗擊新冠病毒大流行，利用機(jī)器人和機(jī)器視覺技術(shù)可以成為保護(hù)人類、控制和防止病毒傳播的重要解決方案。這些尖端技術(shù)不僅有助于制藥和醫(yī)療設(shè)備制造過程，而且還能檢查、識別、識別、診斷、幫助治療新冠患者。

Automation is on the front lines to fight the battle against COVID 19.  Robots are being deployed at medical service facilities to treat patients to minimize human to human contact.Autonomous mobile robots are bringing supplies to people in order to maintain social distancing.The following applications are gaining traction in this current scenario of pandemic.

自動化處于對抗新冠肺炎的前線。機(jī)器人被部署在醫(yī)療服務(wù)設(shè)施中治療病人，以盡量減少人與人之間的接觸。自動移動機(jī)器人為人們帶來補(bǔ)給，以保持社交距離。在當(dāng)前大流行的情況下，以下應(yīng)用越來越受歡迎。

Vision Guided Robotics
COVID-19 has turned increased focus towards vision guided robots, which can reduce unnecessary human contact at medical facilities and hospitals.For instance, Orrbec, a US-based company has collaborated with robot manufacturers in China where its 3D camera products are being deployed in robots for different hospital applications. Food delivery robots, sterilization robots, and directional guiding robots navigating patients between hospital departments, have been deployed across many hospitals in China.

視覺引導(dǎo)機(jī)器人
新冠肺炎疫情讓人越來越關(guān)注視覺引導(dǎo)機(jī)器人，它可以在醫(yī)療機(jī)構(gòu)和醫(yī)院里面減少人與人的不必要接觸。例如，美國Orrbec公司與中國的機(jī)器人制造商合作，在中國將其3D相機(jī)產(chǎn)品部署到機(jī)器人中，用于不同的醫(yī)院應(yīng)用。食品輸送機(jī)器人、消毒機(jī)器人和在醫(yī)院科室之間引導(dǎo)病人的定向引導(dǎo)機(jī)器人已經(jīng)在中國的許多醫(yī)院部署。

Patrol Robots
China has deployed 5G patrol robots in public places, airports and shopping malls, which reminds people to wear face masks and wash hands, and monitors mask-wearing and body temperatures of people assisting police in prevention inspections.Guangzhou Gosuncn Robot Company has developed the robot, powered by an IoT edge computer (MIC-770) from Advantech, equipped with an 8th gen Intel Core I processor and GPU iModule (MIC-75G20) aimed at IoT applications.The robot has five high-resolution cameras and infrared thermometers that can scan the temperature of 10 people simultaneously within a radius of 5 meters.Any potential risk observed,like absence of mask or high temperature, results in an alert being sent by robots to relevant authorities, and a real-time response can be initiated.

巡邏機(jī)器人
中國已在公共場所、機(jī)場和大型購物中心部署了5G巡邏機(jī)器人，提醒人們戴口罩和洗手，并監(jiān)控人員的口罩佩戴和體溫，以協(xié)助警察進(jìn)行預(yù)防檢查。廣州高新興機(jī)器人有限公司開發(fā)了該機(jī)器人，由研華科技的物聯(lián)網(wǎng)邊緣計(jì)算機(jī)(MIC-770)驅(qū)動，配備了第八代英特爾酷睿I處理器和針對物聯(lián)網(wǎng)應(yīng)用的圖形處理器iModule (MIC-75G20)。該機(jī)器人有五個高分辨率攝像機(jī)和紅外溫度計(jì)，可以在5米半徑范圍內(nèi)同時掃描10個人的體溫。觀察到的任何潛在風(fēng)險，如沒有口罩或高溫，都會導(dǎo)致機(jī)器人向相關(guān)機(jī)構(gòu)發(fā)出警報(bào)，并啟動實(shí)時響應(yīng)。

Delivery Robot Van
Chinese startup UDI developed a self-driven robot van, Hercules, for logistics application.It delivers food to lockdown areas.The robot uses LIDAR, stereo vision cameras, and deep-learning algorithms to drive itself, carrying up to 1,000 kilograms on its cargo compartment.The company plans to mass produce these autonomous logistics robots in coming years.

送貨機(jī)器車
中國初創(chuàng)企業(yè)UDI開發(fā)了一款用于物流應(yīng)用的自動駕駛機(jī)器人“大力神”(Hercules)，用于向隔離區(qū)運(yùn)送食物。該機(jī)器人使用激光雷達(dá)、立體視覺相機(jī)和深度學(xué)習(xí)算法進(jìn)行自我駕駛，在貨艙里可運(yùn)載多達(dá)1000公斤的貨物。該公司計(jì)劃在未來幾年大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)這些自主物流機(jī)器人。

Drones
Drones with specialized sensor and computer vision system are deployed to identify people with infectious and respiratory ailments.It has also become a key tool for safe transport of medical and other consumer supplies, medical sample delivery and aerial spray disinfection.

無人機(jī)
配備專門傳感器和計(jì)算機(jī)視覺系統(tǒng)的無人機(jī)被用來識別患有傳染病和呼吸系統(tǒng)疾病的患者。它也已成為安全運(yùn)輸醫(yī)療和其他消費(fèi)用品、醫(yī)療樣本運(yùn)送和空中噴霧消毒的關(guān)鍵工具。

Disinfectant Robots
Disinfectant robots have been increasing since the outbreak of the pandemic.Danish disinfectant robots from UVD Robots have been deployed in all Chinese provinces to help fight the coronavirus.This self-driving robot platform, disinfects and kills diseases, viruses, bacteria, and other types of harmful organic microorganisms in the environment by breaking down their DNA-structure with help of UV light system.The production of these robots has accelerated, and sales are up in China, Asia and Europe.Similarly, Siemens and Aucma have developed a prototype of an intelligent disinfection robot that will soon be available to combat the virus spread.

消毒機(jī)器人
自疫情大流行爆發(fā)以來，消毒機(jī)器人的數(shù)量一直在增加。丹麥UVD機(jī)器人公司的消毒機(jī)器人已經(jīng)被部署到中國的所有省份，幫助對抗冠狀病毒。這種自動駕駛機(jī)器人平臺，通過紫外光系統(tǒng)分解環(huán)境中的疾病、病毒、細(xì)菌和其他類型的有害有機(jī)微生物的DNA結(jié)構(gòu)，從而對其進(jìn)行消毒和殺滅。這些機(jī)器人的生產(chǎn)已經(jīng)加快，在中國、亞洲和歐洲的銷量也在上升。西門子和澳柯瑪也同樣開發(fā)出一種智能消毒機(jī)器人的原型，這種機(jī)器人將很快用于對抗病毒的傳播。

These are just few examples where robots and vision technology have taken charge to meet the non-human labor demand in this pandemic situation.While demand for robotic and vision applications increases many fold in healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical sectors, robotics and intelligent manufacturing automation would be the key solution for manufacturing industries to mitigate the impact of present and future potential epidemic challenges.  No one knows when this pandemic will end, but these critical automation technologies can be harnessed for the revival of industrial production, and it’s time that manufacturers upgrade their facilities with automation tools and digital technologies for safe and ongoing operations.

在疫情流行病的情況下，機(jī)器人和視覺技術(shù)負(fù)責(zé)滿足非人類的勞動力需求，這只是少數(shù)幾個例子。盡管醫(yī)療保健、醫(yī)療和制藥行業(yè)對機(jī)器人和視覺應(yīng)用的需求增加了數(shù)倍，但機(jī)器人技術(shù)和智能制造自動化將成為制造業(yè)減輕當(dāng)前和未來潛在流行病挑戰(zhàn)影響的關(guān)鍵解決方案。沒有人知道這場大流行何時會結(jié)束，但是這些關(guān)鍵的自動化技術(shù)可以用于工業(yè)的復(fù)工復(fù)產(chǎn)，現(xiàn)在是制造商利用自動化工具和數(shù)字化技術(shù)升級其設(shè)施，以實(shí)現(xiàn)安全和持續(xù)運(yùn)行的時候了。