China ’s state-run Global Times on Thursday triumphantly announced the deployment of intimidating robot arms to perform throat swab coronavirus tests “with reasonable sampling accuracy and efficiency.” The Global Times envisioned these robots replacing humans entirely in the coronavirus testing process, but for now they have been deployed on a test basis in the eastern Shandong province . The developers said the fully tested robot arms will be handed over to local officials for live deployment within a few days. “There is demand from some local governments and hospitals in Shanghai , East China ’s Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province...