Published 16:16 IST, July 26th 2020
Tamil Nadu: Robot draped in saree detects customers & provides sanitisers in shop
A user shared video of robots dressed in saree moving around in a textile showroom in Tamil Nadu to detect the customers and provide them with hand sanitizers.
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While the coronavirus contagion continues to tighten its grip on some parts of the world, there are other regions that are embracing the ‘new life’ in the ‘post corona era’. In the same light, Indian Forester Sudha Ramen shared a video of robots dressed in saree moving around in a textile showroom in Tamil Nadu to detect the customers and provide them with hand sanitizers. The short clip showing the machine moving around with a bottle of sanitizer in hand and an LCD screen has taken the internet by storm. The 35-second-long video showing the mannequin has already garnered over 32.4k views and thousands of likes with most internet users lauding the uses of technology.
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‘Highly productive’
From hailing the ‘highly productive’ use of technology to contain the spread of coronavirus to noting the possibility of it being a ‘wider reality’, hundreds of internet users lauded the video and even retweeted it. One of the Twitter users also said that Indians are capable of innovating ‘adequate technology’ to battle the COVID-19 situation and said: “This is brilliant”. Another Twitter user noted that the video shows the optimum use of technology that would also contribute to public health safety especially when most effective precautionary measures include maintaining social distance and personal hygiene. Some internet users even called the mannequin in saree as 'Robot Lady'.
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16:16 IST, July 26th 2020