Drones. Disinfecting robots. Supercomputers. The coronavirus outbreak is a test for China's tech industry

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China's tech giants have responded to the coronavirus outbreak by deploying autonomous vehicles to bring supplies to medical workers, fitting drones with thermal cameras to improve detection of the virus and lending their power to help develop a vaccine.

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"Yes, you can call them gimmicks," said Eliam Huang, an analyst at Coresight Research."But Chinese tech companies can be very responsive and versatile."The food delivery giant Meituan Dianping, for example, introduced robots last week in some of its partners' restaurants in Beijing that help bring food from kitchens to delivery workers, and to customers waiting for takeout orders. Meituan wants to expand the program to other cities if it's successful.

"As we learned of the situation in Wuhan, we started to pivot our resources there," Qi told CNN Business."Time has been really tight. It only took us four days to make sure our algorithm was ready to go, from simulation to practice."And a startup, Shanghai TMIRob, is sending dozens of robots inside hospitals throughout Wuhan, according to Chinese state media. There, they are spraying disinfectant in isolation wards, intensive care units and operating rooms.

 

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Trump doesn’t want his administration to report any new coronavirus cases because the market dropped & could affect his reelection-guess he doesn’t understand how the world affects the markets-he thinks he is controlling the markets-the markets won’t drop if he loses reelection

I don't know if 'nurturing' is the word to use. Intellecual thefting

Of course CNN is a proponent of Chinese surveillance of its people. Using tech to limit freedom is straight from the commie playbook.

China could start by not lying to everyone

There just waiting on the USA to make the cure so they can copy cat!!!

They shouldn't eat bats.

SpeakerPelosi needs to go to China. Her 7th vacation this year on our $$$$

riiight

I hope it's useful and it works as soon as possible

DS created the Virus

Yes. This is the time they have to be useful

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This virus... 😷🤒

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