The next time you step inside a mall for shopping, the girl in a saari at the entrance waiting for your safety check or the girl dressed in formal pantsuit roaming across floor for monitoring if you are following social distancing may take you by surprise. It may not be a girl at all! Yes, you read it right, it may be a humanoid robot in eye-catching human appearance.
After unveiling a range of Zafi Robots, (Zafi Go, Zafi Medic, Zafi Clean and Zafi Sanitizer) which were uniquely intended for the medical and sanitization purposes, Trichy based Propeller Technologies has shifted towards a new version of Humanoid Robot named ‘Zafira’ with more added intelligence, specially designed to ensure the protection of customers from COVID spread in various public places.
In a conversation with the Machine Maker, Mohamed Aashik Rahman, CEO of Propeller Technologies shared, “From the house of Zafi Robots we have developed a series of robots since the very beginning of COVID crisis for supporting various professions. Now, as the prevailing lockdown in various parts of the country has been gradually lifted to normalise economy, majority of the showrooms and shopping malls have started their operations. But still there is – or even higher - risk that the staff and the customers might get contaminated despite taking plenty of safety measures. Consequently, to ensure valuable customer safety we came up with Zafira”.
About Zafira
Zafira is a voice-activated robot, equipped with its own powerful computer which can detect whether the customer is following all the COVID precautions like wearing a mask, maintaining proper temperature and social distancing. It has outfitted features which enable it to automatically dispense hand sanitizers and it can be dressed up accordingly with any eye-catching outfit, which will further add magnificence to its physical appearance.
It begins functioning as soon as a client steps into the shop. It initially requests the client’s name and contact details and afterwards will check the body temperature multiple times. If in case the temperature detected is normal, it will cross-check if the person is wearing a mask and finally before letting the person in it will dispense hand sanitizer on the palms.
So far the outcome of demo conducted with the prototype at Chennai silks has been satisfactory and Rahman mentions that it has gained tremendous appreciation across the state. In fact, currently, the team is focussing on mass production since they have received orders in bulk from various showrooms of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He added that team Zafi is additionally emphasizing on developing profoundly intelligent systems and envisages to become one of the organizations of pride for India in future.
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