机械人活跃在抗疫一线 成人类好帮手
若是你看过影戏《异形：左券》，你可能对机械人没什么好感。可是在这个疫情肆虐的时刻，机械人却成为了人类的好帮手。从扫大街到给病人量体温，越来越多的机械人加入了抗疫第一线的事情。
The dog-like robot named Spot allows doctors to interact with COVID-19 patients via telemedicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.(BRIGHAM AND WOMEN‘S HOSPITAL)
ROBOTS ARE CAST in popular fiction as the villains – soulless automatons take over the world and enslave mankind. But with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, robots are increasingly being employed as helpers, taking on often dull, difficult and tasks and thus reducing humans‘ exposure to COVID-19.
在热门科幻片中，机械人经常以反派的角色泛起——统治天下、奴役人类，没有灵魂。然而，随着新冠肺炎疫情袭击全球，机械人越来越多地被当做助手，肩负起通常枯燥、难题和危险的使命，从而镌汰人类和新冠病毒的接触。
Across the world, robotics companies are teaming with health care providers and officials to technological solutions for dealing with the global health crisis. In China, robots with tank-like tread have rolled down streets spraying disinfectant. In at least one hospital in South Korea, robots are being used to patients‘ temperatures and dispense hand sanitizer. In Tunisia, authorities have deployed robots to people are obeying the lockdown.
在天下各地，机械人公司正与医疗卫生气构和政府官员相助研发手艺产品来应对这场全球康健�；�。在中国，像坦克一样平常转动前行的机械人在街道上喷洒消毒水。在韩国的多家医院，机械人被用于检测病人的体温顺分发洗手液。在突尼斯，政府安排了机械人以确保人们遵守隔离划定。
In the United States, two of the principal ways in which robotic is being used to the pandemic are to disinfect hospital rooms and to act as a telemedicine portal, allowing doctors and health care workers to via conference directly with patients without unnecessarily exposing themselves to the highly contagious virus.
在美国，机械人手艺被用来抗击疫情的两个主要方法是给医院病房消毒和作为远程医疗平台，让医生和医护职员可以通过视频聚会会议直接和病人交流，又可以阻止接触到这种高熏染性的病毒。
In Boston, doctors, researchers and robotics engineers have teamed up to a friendly, dog-like robot named Spot into Brigham and Women‘s Hospital, allowing doctors to interact with COVID-19 patients via telemedicine.
在医生、研究职员和机械人工程师的相助下，友好的机械狗“黑点”进入了波士顿的布里格姆女子医院，让医生可以通过远程医疗系统和新冠肺炎患者举行互动。
While other technology companies have built robots with built-in screens that serve as the doctor‘s stand-in in health care settings, what sets Spot is its four-legged design, which allows the robot to move about easily in different settings, such as the triage tent set up outside the hospital.
只管其他科技公司已经造出了有内置屏幕的机械人，可以在医疗机构中作为医生的替身，可是“黑点”的与众差别之处就在于它有四条腿，可以容易地在差别的园地四处走动，好比医院外支起的分流帐篷。
In March, at the onset of the pandemic, a coalition from the hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Spot‘s manufacturer, robotics firm Boston Dynamics, began developing and testing the robot‘s to enable Spot to interact with patients, thus reducing the exposure of frontline health care workers to the virus. In the place of a head, Spot has an iPad affixed to a stand, allowing doctors to conduct telemedicine sessions with their patients.
今年三月疫情来袭时，该医院的同盟机构麻省理工学院和“黑点”的制造商波士顿动力机械人公司最先研发和测试这款机械人的新功效，让“黑点”可以和病人互动，从而镌汰一线医护职员和病毒的接触。“黑点”的“头”是一个牢靠在台子上的平板电脑，让医生可以对病人举行远程医疗效劳。
“Most people really like it,” says Dr. Peter Chai, an physician and medical toxicologist who serves as the hospital‘s chief investigator on the robot project.
该医院机械人项目的首席视察员、急诊医师、医学毒理学家皮特·柴博士说：“大大都人还挺喜欢它的。”
Researchers are working to the robot‘s diagnostic abilities, enabling it to gauge the patient‘s temperature and his or her respiratory rate.
研究职员正致力于提高这款机械人的诊断能力，让其可以给病人量体温顺呼吸频率。
Chai predicts that hospitals will continue to find ways to use robots even after the coronavirus pandemic subsides, whether it be delivering supplies to rooms or seeing patients with other contagious diseases.
柴博士预计，在疫情已往之后，医院也会继续探索使用机械人的方法，无论是让机械人运送物资到病房，照旧为有其他熏染病的患者诊治。
英文泉源：US News
