It seems like there has been an introduction of new hygiene products using advanced technology. I recently read two articles which I found quite interesting, so I would like to share and ask your opinion about these.
First, let’s take a look at Dyson. Dyson is renowned for home appliances like vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and hair dryers. Now, they introduce the world with their new product, the Dyson Zone, which is a headphone with an air purifier. It means whenever people use one’s headphones, they also take the advantage of inhaling purified air. Of course, as a headphone, you can take calls and listen to music with a noise-canceling function. They started inventing this 6 years ago, so it’s not designed only for coronavirus. It will be out on the market this fall.
Dyson explained that they considered every option, from shoulder to head, but they finally chose a headphone as it is the most natural known way of wearing a device. They also mentioned that the weight distribution mattered since the device is packed with large batteries and mechanics. The filter they used is like an N95 mask and it uses static electricity to pull small particles toward it to improve its filtration efficiency. Since all the motors and air channels create noise, Dyson engineers used active noise cancellation to silence any sounds that couldn’t be eliminated mechanically.
Another product is the so-called ‘disinfection robot’ from the Korean company, KT.
Korean company KT recently launched the AI disinfection robot combining the latest disinfection technology and AI robot. They are planning to lead the robot service market by promoting its own customized ‘robot service platform’ business.
The AI disinfection robot provides plasma, UVC sterilization, and air cleaning functions. Depending on the customer’s preference and the size of the space, it is possible to choose between small/medium- and large-sized.
In the existing quarantine activities, it was common to wear protective clothing and evict people and then spray the disinfection fluid. However, instead of spraying disinfectant that is harmful to the human body, KT’s AI disinfection robot adopted an eco-friendly plasma method that sterilizes more than 99.9% of viruses while being harmless to the human body.
The AI robot function was also faithfully implemented. By applying technologies such as safe autonomous driving and automatic charging based on lidar and camera sensors, the robot moves on its own and unmanned disinfection activities of the entire space are possible at all times. In addition, by utilizing the strengths of KT, a nationwide network operator, it provides customer care services such as remote monitoring with 24-hour intelligent control. You can control the robot, check status information, check the quarantine schedule, and even check the result report with a smartphone app.
As you can guess, the robot service platform means not only providing robot products but also providing services based on digital platforms such as AI networks, autonomous driving, and remote control. Their main goal is to continue to introduce new robot services that solve social problems and innovate customer experience through their robot service platform.
Instead of preventing pollution as its source and pandemic from happening, they are developing a way to live with it.
References:
https://news.naver.com/main/read.naver?mode=LSD&mid=shm&sid1=105&oid=022&aid=0003681420