Automation of Vaccination and Blood Sampling Procedures

This paper describes the applications of a robotic arrangement in the automation of human, poultry and livestock mass-vaccination and human blood sampling. The implications of these applications are vast; basically, the robot provides quarantine of the subjects and eliminates the contact of operators with the blood of subjects which is essential in some cases to prevent health hazards. It will also provide speed, accuracy and fully automatic procedures on a mass-scale which promise to be very cost effective. The concept of automatic vaccination can be easily extended to automatic sterility and medication. In epidemics, this arrangement can prove to be invaluable as it will save a lot of time and money and will eliminate health hazards to the workers. The project from its present crude form can be advanced by incorporating ideas of 3D imaging or 2D imaging of the site under target via software tools or image recognition or images having pathological importance.