Robots can vaccinate humans

Canadian start-up company Cobionix has developed a new robot Cobi, hoping to simplify the vaccination process and achieve autonomous, needle-free vaccination.

This will not only free the physician from the tedious work intensity of vaccination, but also give the vaccination patient a better painless experience.

About Cobi:

Cobi is an intelligent robot that is completely autonomous and does not need to be operated by doctors or nurses.

Vaccination personnel and patients register online in advance, and then arrive at a designated clinic or other location that meets the requirements, and show their ID to the camera on the touch screen interface of the Cobi robot to confirm their identity.

After confirming the identity, the Cobi robot will indicate the location of the vaccinators, reminding them whether they need to take off their coats to facilitate the vaccination, and then scan the vaccinators through multiple lidar sensors on the body, and use the collected sensor data to create an inoculation 3D model of the patient’s body and analyze the model to determine the best position for injection.

Finally, the Cobi robot uses the needle-free high-pressure serum spray technology to form a high-pressure jet (usually greater than 100 m/s) with the instantaneous high pressure generated by the pressure source, and transport the drug molecules through the skin to the subcutaneous or intramuscular area.

An opening is made in the skin that is only the width of a human hair, and the injection is carried out. Depending on the individual's physique and sensitivity to pain, it is almost painless in terms of pain.

Compared with the red and swollen eye of the needle after intramuscular injection in the past, this method will not leave any obvious marks on the vaccinator.

According to Cobionix's official disclosure, Cobi can be updated and reconfigured to serve multiple purposes.