TOKYO'S ROBOT HOTELS FOR COVID PATIENTS
Two Hotels Are Being Used to Quarantine & Treat Patients Source: Pepper the Robot Staffed by Robots, Doctors and Nurses For COVID patients with mild or no symptoms, Tokyo has opened two robot hotels to take the load off of hospitals. The hotels are staffed by robots, doctors and nurses. With a capacity to handle 2800 patient-guests, they are being used as an innovative means to quarantine and treat COVID patients. Pepper and Company The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has taken charge of the two hotels. Very popular humanoid robot Pepper is at the hotels to greet the arriving guests with positive messaging: "Let's bring our hearts together and get through this." Cleaning robots are deployed to clean what the Japanese are calling "high risk red zones". Safer Than Home The Tokyo government feels it's safer for the mildly ill COVID patients to stay at the hotels, which are loaded with technology and medical sta...