Robot with coronavirus advice hits Times Square

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Worried about the spread of coronavirus? A five-foot tall (1.5 meter) Promobot m...

NEW YORK - Worried about the spread of coronavirus? A five-foot tall Promobot might have your answer.

Curious passersby stopped, filled out a short questionnaire on an iPad-like touch screen attached to the robot’s chest, and even had a conversation with the machine. “We did a special software to detect coronavirus symptoms,” the company’s chief business development officer, Oleg Kivorkutsev, told Reuters.

The robot does not actually detect the virus. It asks if a person has common symptoms such a fever and the person has to hit “yes” or “no” on the touch screen, after which they receive a reassuring message if they chose no.

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