UV light has been used for decades in water ... In 2014, one Texan hospital used it in the clean-up after an Ebola case. More than 500 healthcare facilities, mostly in the US, have the machine.

The future of clean hospitals may come in the form of a robot ... it's not safe for use around humans because it employs harmful UV light. When a room is evacuated and the robot switched on ...

Advances in cleaning technologies, particularly curtain steam cleaning and UV-C light sanitation, have introduced transformative methods to achieve unprecedented cleanliness and safety levels.

Dublin-based start-up Akara Robotics has provided two UV decontamination robots to a UK hospital to clean wards and operating theatres. The business, which spun out of Trinity College Dublin (TCD ...