Technology can’t stop an outbreak from happening, but it surely provides us with many innovative ideas to fight the virus. From the pani puri ATM in Gujarat to AR mirrors of South Korea, many shop owners have been going creative to ensure contactless shopping. What has recently gone viral in social media is a robot mannequin in a textile showroom in Madurai, Tamil Nadu which dispenses sanitiser.

The mannequin dressed in a traditional red and green saree moves around the store providing sanitiser to customers. It can also track the location of a customer with the help of a sensor. 

Sharing the video on Twitter, Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sudha Ramen wrote, “Technology put to right use at one of the textile showrooms in TN. An automated mannequin draped in saree detects customers around and walks to them to provide sanitisers. Post-Corona is sure to see intensified technological evolutions.”

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The video was also shared by industrialist Harsh Goenka who wrote, “Two-in-one: She models for the saris and provides sanitizers.”

The video, which has been watched more than 34,000 times, is also getting all kinds of reactions from Twitterati. While some hail it as a good initiative, others ask if the shop owner would come up with a male version of the mannequin.