Robots to stethoscope: Institutes, start-ups develop tech to fight Covid-19

IIT Roorkee and Kanpur have developed low-cost portable ventilators

From low cost portable ventilators to drones for sanitising, robots for delivery of food and medicine to a special stethoscope for examining patients from a distance and a UV technology fitted trunks for sanitising currency and grocery items---several institutions and start ups have come up with innovations to strengthen the fight against Covid-19 pandemic.

Special infection-proof fabric for use in hospitals, low-cost coronavirus testing kits, isolation pods for coronavirus infected patients, bubble helmets, which can be an alternative for traditional oxygen masks, and pendants to raise alarm on breach of social distancing, are also among the innovative ideas that have