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"Germ-Zapping Robots" Could Secure Hollywood Sets From COVID-19 - IGN

Hollywood is looking at ways to protect their employees and secure their sets from the coronavirus once film and TV productions resume, with "germ-zapping robots" being one means reportedly under consideration by some studios and networks.

www.ign.com

Hack screenwriter's pitch: "It's like WALL-E meets Contagion."

(lol)

Lab-certified disinfecting robots -- some of which are already in use at more than 500 hospitals worldwide-- would use ultraviolet light to eliminate the virus SARS-CoV-2 from sets.

One production that's already expressed "serious interest" in Xenex Disinfection Services' "Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot" is the CBS television series Blue Bloods.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, testing results show "the robot was able to deactivate 99.99 percent of the novel coronavirus in two minutes with its LightStrike technology."

The fast-working robots -- which THR says "can be rented on a per-month basis or purchased for roughly $125,000" -- are said to be able to disinfect dozens of rooms per day. (Hollywood sets are still cleaned the old-fashioned way, by people with mops and brooms.)

Whatever it takes to get me another Doctor Strange 2, Hollywood. Whatever It Fuckin' Takes.

 

[Tranquil]

Do they have one that kills spiders and is a little cheaper?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Do they have one that kills spiders and is a little cheaper?

I wish.

I hate spiders

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[Tesseract]

holy fuck at that cost, i guarantee you could scale that way down

 

[cryptoadam]

Pedo zapping robots when?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, testing results show "the robot was able to deactivate 99.99 percent of the novel coronavirus in two minutes with its LightStrike technology."

wait a minute didn't the entire media complex just laugh at Trump endlessly for being a dummy bc he said exactly this a week or two ago? that ultraviolet light has been found to counter the virus?

 

[Stouffers]

Do they have one that kills spiders and is a little cheaper?

It’s called a cat.

 

[Tesseract]

wait a minute didn't the entire media complex just laugh at Trump endlessly for being a dummy bc he said exactly this a week or two ago? that ultraviolet light has been found to counter the virus?

yap, but some will tell you there's no way trump was talking about this kinda stuff

 

[Tranquil]

It’s called a cat.

Googled this to be sure.

You're right but it's for their amusement.

My cat sleeps for amusement.