- Title: Tokyo allocates two robot hotels to house COVID-19 patients
- Date: 1st May 2020
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- Embargoed: 15th May 2020 05:40
- Keywords: Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike Japan accommodation cleaning robot coronavirus hotel robot
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA002CC3KQ4N
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Tokyo Metropolitan Government opened a hotel with robots for coronavirus patients with lighter symptoms that do not need hospital treatment on Friday (May 1).
The local government installed robots for the first time at two hotels lodging patients to reduce the strain on nurses helping to care for them.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike who visited the hotel was welcomed by a humanoid greeting robot "Pepper", that was positioned at the lobby.
Pepper is programmed with positive messages to encourage patients that will be checking in later on Friday.
A cleaning robot with artificial intelligence will maintain sanitation of the lobby and an area for where food and supplies will be provided. It will also be cleaning risky areas known as "red zones" where staff access is limited.
In addition to the robots, a health management application system will be used where patients will be recording their temperature twice a day through a smartphone.
This will reduce the workload for nurses to call patients for temperature monitoring.
The number of coronavirus cases in Japan is now over 14,000 with 455 deaths as of Friday, according to Japanese media report.
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