Chinese researchers     1     (develop) a robot designed to help doctors treat the new coronavirus and other highly contagious diseases so far. The machine has a long robotic arm attached to a base with wheels. It can perform some of medical examination tasks the same     2     doctors.

Cameras record the robot’s activities, which     3    (control) remotely so doctors can avoid     4    (come) in close contact with infected patients. Doctors and other medical workers can operate the machine from a nearby room or much     5    (far) away.

The robot’s main     6    (design) is Zheng Gangtie, an engineer and professor at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing. He told Reuters News Agency that he got     7     idea for the device when the number of cases of the COVID-19 was rising quickly. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Zheng said a friend of his is head of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital. He said his friend told him that one of the biggest     8    (problem) in dealing with COVID-19 was     9     health care workers treating patients were getting infected themselves. Zheng said he wanted to do something to deal with this situation.

So the engineers gathered a team and went to work on the robotic device. Zheng said the team was able to convert two robotic arms. The new robot is almost     10    (complete) automated. It can even disinfect itself after performing actions involving contact with patients.