IIT Ropar, PGIMER Chandigarh join hands to develop Autonomous Vehicles to Eliminate COVID infection to healthcare workers


IIT Ropar and PGIMER Chandigarh have collaborated with each other to design and develop autonomous vehicles. This is because of reduced contact between healthcare workers and Covid-19 patients. This has been decided at a very reasonable and low cost. 

The Directors of IIT Ropar and PGIMER Chandigarh had formally launched two devices, ‘Medi-Sarathi’ and ‘Al-Powered Trolley’ in PGIMER on Wednesday. 

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The successfully and wholly developed indegenous products were designed and developed by a team of researchers led by the Department of Electrical Engineering Team. 

Both of them emphasized on the importance of developing affordable healthcare technologies for a self reliant India. With the rising positive cases day by day, it has become more challenging to save lives from a high-risk. 

These autonomous vehicles act as a part of assistive point of care technologies meant for the use of covid wards. This could be a huge step towards Safety and Self-Reliance.

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With the advent of these devices both the directors shared that they were happy with all their efforts made in the great work. As a result, it eliminates the infection risk to medical staff with 100% secured protection, security and safeguard.

Some of the features include complete remote access. The thermal RGB cameras for human body temperature and sanitization have also been included as some of the features. 

With the power of Artificial Intelligence, the remote trolly can be deployed autonomously in the High Infection Zone for the essential supplies. The critical feature of the trolley includes detection of obstruction, Medical personnel movement etc.

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