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A Tapered Soft Robotic Oropharyngeal Swab for Throat Testing: A New Way to Collect Sputa Samples

2021; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mra.2020.3044914

1558-223X

Zhexin Xie, Bohan Chen, Jiaqi Liu, Feiyang Yuan, Zhuyin Shao, Hui Yang, August G. Domel, Jingfeng Zhang, Li Wen,

Micro and Nano Robotics

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused immeasurable loss to the world. The highly contagious virus poses a challenging risk to public health, especially medical doctors, who are in close contact with patients. Thus, robots can help reduce the risk of medical professionals conducting massive testing with throat swabs. Soft robots, fabricated with compliant materials, allow for low-cost development and safe interaction with humans and show promising potentiality in testing.