Competing UVC Cleaning Robots Show the Need for Prevention, Not Reaction

TekLight, MIT and Amazon are all working on their own autonomous cleaning technology

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UVC light is growing in popularity as a means to not only kill viruses such as Covid-19 but also prevent future widespread infection.

As president of TekClean, an Atlanta-based company that provides disinfection services for data centers in the Southeastern U.S., Duncan Scott decided when the pandemic hit that it was time to find a better solution for disinfecting all kinds of large spaces.

So he founded TekLight, which has teamed up with Uchimura Robotics to resell UVD Robots, a Danish mobile device that uses UVC light to kill bacteria in hospitals, office buildings, gymnasiums and other large areas with frequent activity.

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