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Local Robotic Team Building Portable Ventilators

FIRST FTC Team 8728 Bionic Wolves is using pre-existing robotics equipment to build the ventilators in up to three hours.

(CBS Chicago)

CHICAGO (CBS) — A local robotics team is making portable ventilators to help in the fight against COVID-19.

FIRST FTC Team 8728 Bionic Wolves is using pre-existing robotics equipment to build the ventilators in up to three hours. Kenny Bae, a physics teacher at Wolcott College Prep in Chicago, mentors the robotics team in an organization called FIRST that has over 79,000 teams globally.

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