Joseph O'Keefe: MPI Animal Laboratory Manager says new disease-detecting robot is a game changer
New robot technology may be the answer to catching exotic diseases in animals.
A new machine will improve the testing and accuracy for diseases such as foot and mouth disease or M bovis.
It can test up to seven thousand samples per day for antibodies, and prevent the need for manual testers to catch and ring fence a potential outbreak.
MPI Animal Laboratory Manager Joseph O'Keefe told Tim Dower it's a game changer.
He says they can set a machine up, tell it the samples, push a button and wait for it to process them.
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