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Remove humans from the equation? Humans make mistakes. Humans working in high stress situations are at a greater risk for making mistakes. Humans working in high stress situations, while wearing PPE that traps heat and moisture are at a tremendous risk for making mistakes.


This seems to be a viable target - for people in quarantine, if we can replace x% of actions that need to be done by humans with devices that can be sterilized, then that's a x% decrease in number of infections.

We don't need any AI for this - remote control would work just as well. Can't we get a pair of robotic hands on wheels + Oculus Rift and controller gloves for a small fraction of what an MRI device costs?


While I agree with you overall, this statement is just plain wrong from a statistical perspective:

> if we can replace x% of actions that need to be done by humans with devices that can be sterilized, then that's a x% decrease in number of infections.




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