ABB Ltd. Robots Used for Coronavirus Testing in Singapore
October 08 2020 - 3:23AM
Dow Jones News
By Joshua Kirby
ABB Ltd. said Thursday that its robots are being used as part of
Singapore's coronavirus-testing system.
The Swiss engineering company said its robots are being used as
part of the city-state's Rapid Automated Volume Enhancer testing
system, which automates some of the manual steps usual to sample
processing. Two sets of the system can process an
"industry-topping" volume of close to 4,000 samples a day,
according to ABB.
"RAVE also reduces test contamination and infection risks for
laboratory workers," the company said.
ABB said it supplied four IRB 910 SCARA units used in piloting
the system, and has since received an order for a further 14 robot
units to be used in the system.
Write to Joshua Kirby at joshua.kirby@dowjones.com
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