Biloxi VA uses robot cleaner to disinfect rooms
Biloxi VA uses robot cleaner to disinfect rooms By John Fitzhugh | February 24, 2021 at 6:26 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 7:01 AM
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It looks like a tanning bed for a hospital room but instead of warming your skin, itâs killing viruses, including the novel coronavirus.
The Total Room Ultraviolet Disinfectant, better known as TRU-D, bears a vague resemblance to Rosie, the cleaning robot from The Jetsons.
âItâs a great asset for us,â said Dennis Hughes, housekeeping supervisor at the Biloxi Veterans Affairs Hospital. âIt helps us speed up the process and turn rooms back over to the nurses so they can put patients in rooms.