As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grip the country, some businesses have opened after the coronavirus Unlock 2.0. As customers are apprehensive about going back to shopping centres, textile showroom in Tamil Nadu has started embracing the new normal.

In an attempt to reinvent and bring back customers to their business, this textile showroom has thought out of the box. They have installed robots clad in sarees, that move around with bottles of sanitizers and an LED display, so as to make the most of the social distancing measures while keeping customer safety in mind.

From hailing the ‘highly productive’ use of technology to contain the spread of coronavirus to noting the possibility of it being a ‘wider reality’, hundreds of internet users lauded the jugaad brain of an Indian. One of the Twitter users also said that Indians are capable of innovating ‘adequate technology’ to battle the COVID-19 situation and said: “This is brilliant”. Another Twitter user noted that the video shows the optimum use of technology that would also contribute to public health safety especially when most effective precautionary measures include maintaining social distance and personal hygiene. Some internet users even called the mannequin in saree as ‘Robot Lady’, as reported by The Republic.

Technology put to right use at one of the textile showrooms in TN. An automated mannequins draped in saree detects customers around and walks to them to provide sanitisers. Post Corona is sure to see intensified technological evolutions. pic.twitter.com/r2QQg1wpsY

— Sudha Ramen (@SudhaRamenIFS) July 20, 2020

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