A robot dog named K9 wanders around the Central World mall in downtown Bangkok to distribute hand sanitizer to children and shoppers. 

This is an initiative created by the Thai malls to raise the awareness of the public about the COVID-19 preventive measures.  

K9 is created by the mobile operator Advanced Info Services (AIS) which aims to roll out a 5G network for smartphones by the end of 2020. 

    
Photo Source: Malay Mail

K9’s 5G-powered comrades include ROC, which checks temperatures, and LISA, a customer service-bot.

  
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Petra Saktidejbhanubandh, a marketing officer of AIS stated that the robots are to help people, not to replace them.

Source: Malay Mail

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