RAFAEL’s Corona Robot Minimizing Direct Contact with PatientsMany routine nursing activities involve physical presence in patients’ rooms and hands-on contact with patients, increasing the threat of contagion. To reduce this risk, RAFAEL has added image processing and computer vision algorithms to an existing, off-the-shelf robot ‒ creating a Corona Robot which can perform a number of routine nursing tasks, including distribution of food and medications, and enabling remote communication between nurses and patients via a screen. Utilization of facial recognition technologies, as well as information previously input by nurses, ensures that the robot distributes meals and medications to the right people, thus significantly reducing the need for nurses to enter Corona patients’ rooms