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Blue Ocean Robotics builds UV-D disinfection robot

Organization: Blue Ocean Robotics ApS
Country: Denmark
Website: www.blue-ocean-robotics.com
Year Founded: 2013
Number of Employees: 95

Blue Ocean Robotics' "venture factory" designs and supplies UV-D disinfection robot.

Description:

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals needed a way to disinfect rooms without exposing personnel or patients to harmful pathogens or radiation. The novel coronavirus crisis has rapidly escalated demand for disinfection robots worldwide, but only a few companies were ready to satis that demand.

Blue Ocean Robotics began as a robotics integrator and became a full-service robotics company, designing and developing service robots for the agriculture, construction, healthcare, and hospitality markets. As a “venture factory,” it has created divisions to commercialize its technologies. Its UVD Robots unit first sold the UV-Disinfection robot last year after six years of development.

The UVD robot is an autonomous mobile robot that uses UV-C light to kill up to 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in a patient room in 15 minutes. A Taiwan hospital study conducted over four to six months found that the UVD robot can reduce the number of infections by more than 25%.


Analysis:

In the U.S. alone, more than 1.7 million people develop hospital-related infections each year, and 75,000 die from them, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Blue Ocean Robotics has rapidly scaled up production and distribution of the UVD robot, providing it to more than 50 countries in 2020.

In addition to hospitals, the UVD robots can be used in other public spaces, such as hotels, schools, and airports.

Since the novel coronavirus outbreak, Blue Ocean Robotics’ UVD robot has experienced a quadrupling of sales (and spawned a host of imitators). With thousands of robots expected to be in the field in the next few years, this disinfection robot will continue to be on the front lines of the fight against pandemics. -- Eugene Demaitre

Source: Blue Ocean Robotics

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