Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases

Guang-Zhong Yang; Bradley J Nelson; Robin R Murphy; Howie Choset; Henrik Christensen; Steven H Collins; Paolo Dario; Ken Goldberg; Koji Ikuta; Neil Jacobstein; Danica Kragic; Russell H Taylor; Marcia McNutt

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.abb5589

Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases

Sci Robot. 2020 Mar 25;5(40):eabb5589. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abb5589.

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Affiliations

¹ Guang-Zhong Yang is the Founding Editor of Science Robotics and a Professor and the Dean of the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Email: gzyang@sjtu.edu.cn.
² Bradley J. Nelson is the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Robin R. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
⁴ Howie Choset is the Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁵ Henrik Christensen is the Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
⁶ Steven H. Collins is an Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁷ Paolo Dario is a Professor, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.
⁸ Ken Goldberg is a Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁹ Koji Ikuta is a Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁰ Neil Jacobstein is Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Singularity University, Santa Clara, CA, USA, and a MediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹¹ Danica Kragic is a Professor of Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Russell H. Taylor is the Director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and a Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹³ Marcia McNutt is the President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair, National Research Council, Washington, DC, USA.

PMID: 33022599
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abb5589

Abstract

COVID-19 may drive sustained research in robotics to address risks of infectious diseases.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Communicable Disease Control / methods*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Public Health
Robotics*
Telemedicine