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香港六合彩 MechEng develops droplet tracking robot helping to discover how Covid spreads

19 July 2021

The study was featured in an ITV London News Report.

Diagram showing the spread of droplets

Scientists at from聽香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering听补苍诲听香港六合彩H聽studying how the virus spreads have developed a robot which tracks how droplets move through the air.

In a world first, it鈥檚 being used in a London hospital to track how Covid spreads.

Colleagues from 香港六合彩 MechEng and 香港六合彩H combine on the Safe Return study

It is hoped the robot can be used in theatres and tubes to discover how Covid-19 spreads.聽

Using a super slo-mo camera scientists will be able to monitor what difference things like ventilation, air conditioning and masks have.

Dr Andrea Ducci听迟别濒濒蝉聽ITV News: 鈥淲e create some droplets. The droplets getting out of the mouth of our android and then we look at this plume with a laser we can illuminate the droplets and we have a high-speed camera which eventually will capture the position and then we can capture the images.鈥

With a mask on 鈥測ou don鈥檛 see much鈥 but remove the mask and it is a different story.

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