Amazon: Set-up UVC lights on the surface to kill coronavirus.
Amazon has announced that it has fulfilled its promise to eliminate all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfillment centers in India. Reuters reported the
the e-commerce giant said that it has swapped packaging materials such as double wraps and air pillows with the paper cushions as well as plastic tapes with other biodegradable options.
The company had said last September that India unit would replace a single-use plastic in its packaging by June 2020. Following PM Modi's call to end its nationwide usage by 2022. Researchers from MIT have developed a new robotic system powerfully disinfect surfaces and neutralized aerosolized foams of the coronavirus.
These can be expensive and time-consuming when disinfecting large warehouses. Even dangerous for use to be exposed with this in mind MIT s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory teamed up with Ava robotics to build an autonomous robot.
That's capable of mapping the space and navigating between waypoints and other specified areas. A custom UVC light fixture was added to the mobile robot base that uses short-wavelength ultraviolet light to kill microorganisms and disrupt their DNA in a process called ultraviolet germicidal irradiation.
The prototype drove through a warehouse at about 0.22 miles per hour. The researchers could cover about 4,000 square feet in half an hour and neutralized about 90% of the coronavirus particles on survives.