York professor leads project on first AI-powered disinfecting robot in Canadian healthcare facility

York professor leads project on first AI-powered disinfecting robot in Canadian healthcare facility

For the first time in Canada, a disinfection robot is using AI (artificial intelligence) technology to sanitize a healthcare facility and a York University nursing professor is overseeing the project. Irfan Aslam, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health’s School of Nursing, is the infection control lead at Toronto’s Mon Sheong Home for the Aged, a facility that confirmed its first COVID-19 case April 4 and by April 23 had declared an outbreak. As of June 5, the facility has been declared COVID-19-free; on June 4, the AI robot arrived to join the home’s cleaning crew, the first time an AI powered robot will be used in this kind of setting. Read more in this YFile story.