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Texas developers devise Ebola killer robot

by on08 October 2014



You probably were not expecting this

When we heard that Ebola had broken out in Texas we expected the locals to either try shooting it or work out a clever way to strap it to an electric chair and make it die a painful death.

It turns out that we were not too far from getting it right. A local hospital has built a robot which can kill Ebola in hospitals by disinfecting and destroying bacteria and viruses. Dubbed "Little Moe" it has a xenon bulb under the bonnet which fuses the DNA of a virus and kills it. This powerful technology is now being used in 250 hospitals across the U.S. Little Moe was developed in the Alamo City by Xenex. Its customers include the University Health System in San Antonio and the Dallas hospital where doctors are treating the first man ever diagnosed with Ebola in America.

Such a robot used by hospitals to disinfect and destroy bacteria and viruses may turn out to be the key piece of technology in the fight against Ebola. The robots can rid a hospital room of germs in 5 minutes and destroy Ebola on any surface in 2 minutes.

The robot is left alone in a room by itself. It pulses UV light 1.5 times per second cleaning every surface in a hospital room.

"And what our customers have seen and reported in the medical literature is reduction in these infections in the rate of up to 50 percent," he said.

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