Forecasting the Use of Decontamination Robots in the COVID Era

Cruz, Angel Contreras; Khalil, Ashwaq Al; Kirbac, Aynur; Cowan, Kelly R.; Ayyildiz, Ozgul

doi:10.23919/picmet53225.2022.9882538

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 20 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Systems using UV-C light for sanitising healthcare environments (e.g., patient rooms, hospital theatres) have been long developed and implemented [5], [15], [23], evolving from stationary machines to mobile robotic systems. Design and deployment of UV-C robots for disinfecting other public settings have proliferated since the COVID-19 pandemic began [1] having reached an estimated inflexion point in mid-2020 [6]. Despite a plethora of UV-C robotic systems both in the market and under research and development [15], research on UV-C robots mostly focuses on technical matters such as improving efficiency, reliability, and cost [5], and only a few studies have focused on understanding people's perceptions of them [10], [24].…”

Section: B Uv-c Robots For Disinfectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot

Trigo,

Reyes-Cruz,

Maior

et al. 2023

2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public feels reassured when disinfection is carried out by robots. In this paper, we present the results of a mixed-methods user study exploring how trust and reassurance by both professional cleaners and members of the public is affected by the use of a UV-C disinfection robot and information about its performance after disinfecting a simulated classroom. The results show a range of insights for those designing and wishing to deploy UV-C robots: we found that trust and reassurance are affected by information about the UV-C robot's task performance, with more information coinciding with significantly more agreement to be able to judge that the robot is doing a good job. However, care should be taken when designing information about task performance to avoid misinterpretation. Overall, the results suggest a generally positive picture regarding the use of UV-C disinfecting robots and that cleaning professionals would be happy to have them as their teammates; however, there were also some concerns regarding the effect on less-skilled jobs. Taken together, our results provide considerations to make UV-C robots welcomed by cleaning teams as well as to provide reassurance to space users.

show abstract

Section: B Uv-c Robots For Disinfectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot

Trigo,

Reyes-Cruz,

Maior

et al. 2023

2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Basically, materials should not contain nutrients as microbial growth substrate and if inoculated with selected strains should not promote microorganism proliferation. The suitability rating is usually expressed as excellent (no growth substrate), good, low, and poor [ 53 ].…”

Section: Robotics In Aseptic Manufacturingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotics and Aseptic Processing in View of Regulatory Requirements

Tanzini,

Ruggeri,

Bianchi

et al. 2023

Pharmaceutics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Several nanomedicine based medicinal products recently reached the market thanks to the drive of the COVID-19 pandemic. These products are characterized by criticality in scalability and reproducibility of the batches, and the manufacturing processes are now being pushed towards continuous production to face these challenges. Although the pharmaceutical industry, because of its deep regulation, is characterized by slow adoption of new technologies, recently, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) took the lead in pushing for process improvements using technologies already established in other manufacturing sectors. Foremost among these technologies, robotics is a technological driver, and its implementation in the pharma field should cause a big change, probably within the next 5 years. This paper aims at describing the regulation changes mainly in aseptic manufacturing and the use of robotics in the pharmaceutical environment to fulfill GMP (good manufacturing practice). Special attention is therefore paid at first to the regulatory aspect, explaining the reasons behind the current changes, and then to the use of robotics that will characterize the future of manufacturing especially in aseptic environments, moving from a clear overview of robotics to the use of automated systems to design more efficient processes, with reduced risk of contamination. This review should clarify the regulation and technological scenario and provide pharmaceutical technologists with basic knowledge in robotics and automation, as well as engineers with regulatory knowledge to define a common background and language, and enable the cultural shift of the pharmaceutical industry.

show abstract