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Chinese researchers have developed a robot designed to help doctors treat the new coronavirus and other1. (high) contagious (传染的) diseases. The machine has a long robotic arm attached to a base with wheels. It can perform some of the same medical examination tasks2. doctors. Cameras record the robot’s activities, 3. are controlled remotely so doctors can avoid4. (come) in close contact with infected patients. Doctors and other medical5. (worker) can operate the machine from a nearby room, or from much farther away.

The robot’s main6. (design) is Zheng Gangtie, an engineer and professor at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing. He said that he got the idea for the device around the time of the Lunar New Year in January. At the time, 7. number of cases of the COVID-19 virus was rising quickly in the city of Wuhan. COVID-19 is the disease8. (cause) by the new coronavirus.

“Doctors are all very brave,” Zheng said. “But this virus is just too contagious. We can use robots to perform the most9. (danger) tasks. I would like to build more of the robots, but money from the university10. (run) out so far. Each robot costs about $72,000 to make.”