Fig. 1.

Automated robotic system for SARS-COV-2 diagnosis. a The mechanical structure and layout of the system shown from different orientations (front, rear, and top). The key functional modules of this system, including mag-rod module, multifunctional head with robot arm and single-photon counting-based PMT detector, are labelled with numbers. b A brief workflow of SARS-COV-2 detection from specimen preparation to nucleic acid extraction with enrichment, followed by fluorescent-based detection. A final report is generated after the raw data is generated from the PMT detection