KOCHI:
Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) initiated today an unconventional battle against the spread of Coronavirus by launching an awareness drive using two robots.
Of the pair of computer-programmed machines, developed by Asimov Robotics which is a startup incubated at KSUM in Kalamassery north of this city, one distributes masks, sanitizer and napkins in a bid to check COVID-9 — the disease caused by the new virus. At the KSUM’s Integrated Startup Complex, the other robot screens detail about the World Health Organisation’s campaign to contain the scary disease.
Asimov CEO Mr Jayakrishnan T said a general public apathy towards preventive measures against Coronavirus has prompted the solutions-provider company to go for such a drive. The use of robots in the campaign has invited public attention, also considering the propensity of Coronavirus to spread though human contact.
All startups being incubated at KSUM are being given health guidelines in the context of Coronavirus. The 2006-founded KSUM is a nodal agency of the Kerala government for entrepreneurship development and incubation activities in the state.
