Coronavirus: Spain to use artificial intelligence to automate testing

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The Spanish government is planning to test 80,000 people a day for coronavirus with the roll-out of robot testers. Technology will be used to speed up testing of people in Spain, one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbreak, with more than 200 deaths so far. Applying AI and robot technology could help overcome these problems, while reducing medical practitioners’ exposure to the virus. The technology has proved successful in medical trials, including identifying cancer in breast scans. A research paper from Google Health, published in Nature magazine, has reported that machine learning, based on Google’s TensorFlow algorithm, can be used to reduce false positives in breast cancer scans.

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