Also in May, the University of Southern Denmark announced that it had created robots to help with covid-19 screening. While not resembling a complete human, this robotic arm can swab patients and then be swapped out for each test to ensure the testing area stays as sanitary as possible.

Though a public audience has not been allowed to attend Taiwan baseball games due to the coronavirus outbreak, that doesn't mean the players have to play for an empty stadium; since April, not only have cardboard cutouts of fans and plastic mannequins been filling the stands, but also drum-playing robots have hyped up the "audience" ambiance. In fact, five of these musical bots were put together and synchronized to play music for the baseball players.

Considering that large gatherings of people are banned worldwide to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, students are unable to attend their graduation ceremonies as a great deal have been cancelled. In response, some universities, like the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin in Malaysia, have considered having their graduates make their walk to their diplomas digitally -- with their head displayed on a screen perched upon a robot wearing a cap and gown.

While the students of this university strongly vetoed this idea in early June, other colleges throughout the world have considered the same or went ahead and performed such robotic ceremonies.

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Similar to University of Southern Denmark's swabbing robotic arm, a robotic arm developed in Singapore has also been created to help healthcare professionals combat covid-19. Instead of screening patients for the disease, however, the XDBOT by NTU Singapore can spray disinfectant on large surfaces by being remotely controlled by a human. Testing for this bot began this past April.

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