This seems to be a viable target - for people in quarantine, if we can replace x% of actions that need to be done by humans with devices that can be sterilized, then that's a x% decrease in number of infections.
We don't need any AI for this - remote control would work just as well. Can't we get a pair of robotic hands on wheels + Oculus Rift and controller gloves for a small fraction of what an MRI device costs?
While I agree with you overall, this statement is just plain wrong from a statistical perspective:
> if we can replace x% of actions that need to be done by humans with devices that can be sterilized, then that's a x% decrease in number of infections.
We don't need any AI for this - remote control would work just as well. Can't we get a pair of robotic hands on wheels + Oculus Rift and controller gloves for a small fraction of what an MRI device costs?