Students from the National College of Technical Professional Education (Conalep), campus I of Veracruz, developed a robot they called “Coni-1 robocovid”, which will guide the monitoring of sanitary measures before the future return to face-to-face classes.
Facing the possible return to classes in the campus I of Conalep Veracruz, students of Industrial Electronics and Electronic Systems Maintenance, created the “Coni-1 robocovid”, a robot that is able to take the body temperature, apply sanitizer and identify students as they enter the facilities.
One of the goals of the robot is to reduce the exposure of security staff when applying sanitary measures and to avoid possible contagions by taking the temperature of the students.
The robot was developed and assembled by a team of four students from the fourth and sixth semesters of the aforementioned careers. In addition, they had the help of two of their professors, who helped them to obtain brake linings, shock absorbers and other scrap parts from an automotive mechanic workshop, to use them in the assembly of the robot. The robot is 1.8 meters tall and 90% of its structure is made of recycled electronic components
The young students' creation, Coni-1 robocovid, has a radio frequency identification (RFID) card, which allows students entering the school's facilities to be identified. “The purpose (of the robot) is to help us take the temperature of people entering the school and it also has an RFID card with which a roll call can be made, thus avoiding exposing people to the virus,” explained Edith Martinez, professor at Conalep I.
The robot has a voice recording that indicates the steps to follow to enter the campus: show identification and bring it close to the RFID card, and receive the sanitizer in the body that the robot expels through its limbs.
In this way, thanks to the talent and creativity of its students, Conalep I of Veracruz is getting ready to welcome back its students, teachers and workers.
