Technician builds PPE-free booth for COVID-19 testing

Thursday, April 23, 2020

A technician at Waterloo Engineering is earning high praise for quickly designing and building a booth to allow front-line health workers to test for COVID-19 without wearing scarce protective gear.

Robert Wagner, who has been at the University of Waterloo for 23 years and nows works in the RoboHub robotics research, testing and training facility, created the see-through enclosure at his home shop in New Hamburg.

“It was an exercise in Canadian innovation and can-do,” he said.

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