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A Robotic Health-Care
Assistant for the
COVID-19 Emergency
A Proposed Solution for Logistics and Disinfection
in a Hospital Environment

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By Christian Tamantini, Francesco Scotto di Luzio, Francesca Cordella,
Giuseppe Pascarella, Felice Eugenio Agrò, and Loredana Zollo

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he COVID-19 pandemic and the related emergency have contributed to the push for innovative
solutions applied to health care. In particular,
robotics has shown huge potential for contributing
to pandemic relief efforts and improving people's

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quality of life in several scenarios. In this article, a robotic
system, characterized by interaction capabilities and
autonomous navigation, is developed to be used in a
COVID-19 health-care treatment center for logistics and
disinfection purposes. The article describes the two-month
use of the platform in the University Hospital Campus BioMedico (UCBM) COVID-19 treatment center in Rome,
Italy, and presents experimental results for the robot's
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