According to railway officials, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are proving of serious assistance at railway stations and hospitals in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Automated robots not only check temperatures and oxygen saturation at station entry points, but the remote-controlled ones also help in carrying essentials, medicines inside quarantine wards of railway hospitals. The RPF has also developed another one for surveillance equipped with motion sensors, PTZ camera (Pan, Tilt, Zoom cameras).