Infection is the biggest enemy of humanity. 107 Billion humans have walked on earth till now, and roughly 85.6 Billion (80%) of them died due to infection from various sources.

The core of medical science is disinfection. Let’s take the example of surgery, no matter how well an operation goes, without disinfection you are as good as a dead person.

Infection is such a big problem that you might go to the hospital with a sore throat and come back with a sore throat and flu. You acquired it from the hospital chair where someone was sitting yesterday, had the flu and sneezed.

There is a particular term for what just happened, HAI (hospital-acquired infection) and it’s such a common thing that every year 8.9 Million people around Europe have it which costs Europe 5.5 Billion euros every year.

Right now, we can see around us how a high infectious disease can bring down such a highly sophisticated and advanced human civilisation to its knees. It’s not the first time, and it’s not going be the last time.

So, how do we solve such a deep-rooted problem?

The answer is simple, disinfect our surrounding routinely and adequately.

So, why don’t we do it?

First, we are terrible at doing repetitive and mundane work. We do not do it properly after a few times.

Secondly, we lack a perfect and efficient solution for the disinfection of a large space.

The current solutions involve using alcohol-based solutions which need to stay on the surface for a few hours for perfect disinfection. Which means it is virtually impossible to disinfect all our surroundings all the time. You also cannot disinfect the air where a significant amount of viruses are.

What’s the solution?

Using UV-C light to disinfect the surfaces and air. The world has been using UV-C for more than half a century in laboratories to disinfect their equipment and tools.

Why don’t we use it to disinfect our surroundings yet?

It is harmful to humans, so, we cannot carry it around to disinfect our surrounding.

But Robots can. The jobs that are very dangerous for humans can be and should be done by robots.

Let me present to you Robo-uv, a fully autonomous disinfection robot. It can map its surrounding, be called on request or have preset waypoints on a map and scheduled time, disinfect, go back to its charging station.

It is running on ROS (Robot operating system) which is the system being used by Google, Tesla and almost any highly advanced robot. It gets the localisation data from the LiDAR, make sense of the raw data and sends the signal to the control unit, which is the Arduino, and that controls the motor and the lights.

Why is this so important?

Everything in this world is for good health, we work to provide for our family and us, to have food on the table, to lead a healthy life. A healthier population is a happier population, which increases the productivity of society. It’s a cycle, you fix one segment of the cycle, and everything else falls in place.