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GlobalLogic’s Silicon & Embedded division served as the engineering and collaboration partner for Haystack Robotics in developing a mobile UV disinfection robot, according to The Robot Report. The autonomous mobile robot (AMR) is designed to deliver hospital-grade UV disinfection with minimal human intervention, addressing a cleaning process that the source describes as time-intensive, difficult to scale, and often inconsistent.
The project began during the COVID-19 pandemic, when disinfection became a critical robotics use case. Kunaal Mahanti, physical AI lead at GlobalLogic, told The Robot Report that sanitizing hospitals and care facilities was a major use case at that time, and that Haystack came up with the concept of doing disinfection better. Mahanti noted that manual disinfection did not offer good coverage. GlobalLogic’s role, he said, was to take that concept and make it real.
The result is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that combines real-time perception, edge-based intelligence, and navigation to deliver hospital-grade UV disinfection with minimal human intervention.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said the robot can operate safely alongside people, interpret its surroundings, and adapt to changes in its environment. The system combines real-time perception, edge-based intelligence, and navigation.
GlobalLogic designed the robot as an expandable platform rather than a single-use system. Mahanti explained that the team separated the track portion — the part carrying the robot — from the UV payload, so other modules could be mounted at a later date. “We wanted to make it an expandable platform,” he said, describing the architectural separation as a way to support future use cases beyond the original disinfection application.
The source does not provide a deployment timeline, pricing, or ROI figures for the robot.
Source: The Robot Report