Ideas worth spreading

Mark Stibich • TEDxBeaconStreetSalon

Germ-zapping Robots in the Post-antibiotic Era

Pathogens are continually evolving; our tools to fight them must evolve too. Robots present novel opportunities to respond to the changing infection environment, a vast improvement over simple disinfectant practices. This talk exposes the weaknesses of current methods and introduces technology that currently exists to minimize virus and bacterial transmission in sensitive hospital environments.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBeaconStreetSalon, an independent event.

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Pathogens are continually evolving; our tools to fight them must evolve too. Robots present novel opportunities to respond to the changing infection environment, a vast improvement over simple disinfectant practices. This talk exposes the weaknesses of current methods and introduces technology that currently exists to minimize virus and bacterial transmission in sensitive hospital environments.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBeaconStreetSalon, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

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