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Spot, a robotic dog developed by researchers from MIT and Boston Dynamics, is being used to help clinicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital talk with Covid-19 patients while minimizing contact, reports 7 News. Prof. Giovanni Traverso explains that, “what we are incorporating are our cameras that can extract visually, using either infrared or regular cameras, heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation.”