United Microelectronics (UMC) has disclosed it has donated three ultraviolet (UV) disinfection robots to a hospital in northern Taiwan to help contain the coronavirus pandemic, each carrying a market price of NT$3 million (US$105,500).

UMC has mulled how to use resources available in high-tech industries to support medical facilities to control the pandemic, said UMC chairman Stan Hung.

Using high-tech UV beam, the disinfection robot can undertake quick and large-scope disinfection in surgical operation rooms, intensive care units, isolation wards, emergence rooms, and coronavirus screening stations, said UMC. The disinfection takes 5-15 minutes, much shorter than 2-8 hours for conventional UV disinfection devices.

This is the third time UMS has donated such robots to local hospitals, the latest being Taoyuan General Hospital.

A UV disinfection robot donated by UMC
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