Egyptian college students create "robot nurse" to help medical teams during pandemics

Students and teaching staff show the video call ability of their created robot nurse "Shams" in a lab of Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 11, 2021. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

"The current version (of the android) performs several tasks, such as taking medicines from the pharmacy to the patients' room, taking samples from the patients' room to the lab, making video calls between patients and doctors and reading the basic conditions of a patient based on the monitor next to them," said a member of the development team.