In the Ebola pandemic, a lot of little and far communities were really affected by it even vanishing some of them. Our team does not want this to repeat that’s why we create Daisy. Daisy is a robot 35 cm x 45 cm x 30 cm that will have the ability to move and go to any house and make a Covid-19 test of saliva and a questionnaire of some symptoms. The robot will address the patient in all the processes explaining them all and trying to be as much friendly as possible to make them feel comfortable. Besides, in the end, it will give advice to the user of how to proceed in this pandemic and make them conscious of how many people in their zone has the disease or has a high possibility.
For Daisy’s test, we took in count the device developed by Abbott Labs that use isothermal nucleic acid amplification to determine if the virus SARS-CoV-2 is in the sample given. We took in account that a huge amount of studies shows how effective and practice the saliva test was, also there are some result that it is even more precise and showing results in earlier stages of the disease than the nose, throat or nasopharynx tests. The results will be shown in at least 5 minutes for positive tests and up to 13 minutes to negative tests. To make the test, Daisy will give the user a tiny plate for them to split in it and give it back to her. After the test is finished, it will ask the user to take the plate again and throw it away.
Daisy will have a large system inside which will let her analyses the user answers, the database, and most important to get the SARS-CoV-2 test’s results. In the front, it will have four buttons, a couple for the volume, another to turn off the microphone and the last one to call for help to the man in charge. Also, it will have a battery indicator in the front. At the top of the robot, there will be the deposit of the saliva sample, there should be placed and it’s the same place it will be out. In the back will be placed all the clean sample plates. By last, the wheels will be off-road so it can go anywhere.
There will be only one engineer for up to 5 machines for 180 km around. This person will check them once a week and disinfect them. As there is only need one person, it will be more practical and without occupying more medical personal. Besides, it will be less likely to be infected and to infect the community. Finally, this will help the community to be conscious of this virus and how to act about it.
We were inspired by the situation that in the pandemic of the Ebola a lot of little distant small communities were operantly affected because of the number of persons that passed away letting some tribes completely taken away from the world. We don’t want this to happen ever again so we decide to focus on how to make all these communities conscious of this disease and make the diagnostic fast and that every person can take their own sample without risking anybody else.
The tools that we use to develop this was a software called VoiceFlow that use java to make a skill for Alexa, so we also use the Amazon Alexa platform to make the voice interaction. We took the information for the test and questioner from different news and scientific disclosure platforms. Finally, for the design of the robot, we used the software of Adobe Illustrator.
We have a lot of trouble trying to find a precise test that will give the result in a couple of minutes. There was a different test that was made in a massive number but takes hours to make and some others like the blood test that are only effective after a couple of days of being infected. We had to search in a lot of scientific news and articles to get our final test to be implemented. Also, it was hard trying to make the perfect fit for the robot to store the plates needed, the test system, and the voice interaction system. And last but not least, it was so important to have the perfect interaction with the user for them to feel comfortable and to understand the instructions, the result, and the advice they were given. By the end of the day all those problems we could get ahead of them making the best as we could.
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