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Robin R. Murphy, Texas A&M University ; Justin Adams, Florida State University, and Vignesh Babu Manjunath Gandudi, Texas A&M University

(THE CONVERSATION) A cylindrical robot rolls into a treatment room to allow health care workers to remotely take temperatures and measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation from patients hooked up to a ventilator. Another robot that looks like a pair of large fluorescent lights rotated vertically travels throughout a hospital disinfecting with u...