A robot is nudging kids at a tribal school in India into washing their hands better

“When kids in Wayanad’s Government Primary School Chithragiri in north Kerala go to wash their hands, Pepe watches from above.At the school, with 100-odd students aged between five and 10, the hand-shaped robot sits mounted on a wall above the handwashing station. Installed as a pilot project in March this year, Pepe has boosted pupils’ handwashing rates by 40%, researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University in India found.” #GlobalHandWashingDay #Covid19