Coronavirus-Zapping Robots Are Rolling Out in the Wild

But there’s still a long way to go before UV-blasting devices hit the mainstream

Yasmin Tayag
Future Human
Published in
3 min readDec 1, 2020

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Rosie, a virus-killing robot manufactured by Xenex. Photo: Essdras M Suarez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

San Antonio International Airport recently welcomed a new employee: a wheelchair-sized robot called the LightStrike that zaps the coronavirus and other pathogens with ultraviolet light. As the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, the…

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Yasmin Tayag
Future Human

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.