Cubans tap Chinese tech to build robot

HAVANA－Cuban experts have taken apart a Chinese electric scooter to build a prototype robot that helps out at a COVID-19 quarantine center on the outskirts of the country's capital.

Palmiche Galeno Plus, the autonomous robot, is named after a popular Cuban cartoon character and was developed by a team of professors and students at Technological University of Havana Jose Antonio Echeverria, or CUJAE.

Juan Antonio Pinera, a researcher at the university, said the quality and availability of Chinese technology in Cuba made it possible to innovate such creations.