ABB robots help tackle COVID by automating testing, research and diagnostics
Robotics and Automation News, February 6, 2023
ABB Robotics has developed an automated neutralizing antibody testing system with the University of Texas Medical Branch that is “the most effective means” of determining an individual’s immunity to various strains of COVID. “The ability to carry out more daily tests is the key to generating more data on individual immunity profiles that will help control the further spread of the virus,” said Dr. Michael Laposata, professor and chairman of the department of Pathology at UTMB. “By transforming the rate at which testing can be carried out and eliminating the need for large numbers of laboratory staff being exposed to the potential risk of infection in manual testing, the automated system we’ve developed with ABB provides an accurate, fast, flexible and safe way of meeting our goals.” Many other news sites that focus on robotics carried this news as well as many European news sites.