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Singapore unveiled a four-legged canine-like robot on Friday (May 8) to remind park goers to maintain social distancing. The robot, named "Spot," could be seen patrolling Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park onFriday afternoon as part of a two week trial-run held by the National Parks Board and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, according to an official press release from National Parks. Spot, who was developed by Boston Dynamics, is being deployed to "reduce the manpower required for park patrols and minimise contact among staff".
Spot is equipped with cameras and censors to help it estimate the number of visitors at the park, and occasionally makes announcements via a speaker reminding people to "stand at least one metre apart".
For now, Spot is remote-controlled, but its developers hope that it will achieve full autonomy in the future.
(Production: Edgar Su, Joseph Campbell)
#robot #socialdistancing #lockdown
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Overview & Key Concepts
What is Social Distancing?
Social distancing is a set of non-pharmaceutical measures taken to prevent the spread of a contagious disease. This is achieved by maintaining a
physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It typically involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified may differ from time to time and country to country) and avoiding gathering together in large groups. By reducing the probability that a given uninfected person will come into physical contact with an infected person, the disease transmission can be suppressed, resulting in fewer deaths. The measures are often combined with good respiratory hygiene and hand washing.
What is Singapore?
Singapore is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets
and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
