Inside the BoroBot makerspace, a dozen 3-D printers are crafting the newest version of a modified face shield design aiming to protect health care workers battling COVID-19.

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It’s been an almost nonstop week of production for BoroBot president Rich Oakley and Director of Technology Christopher Van, along with a small team, as they refine iteration after iteration of face shield designs, with revisions from a Boston hospital, that will go directly to that hospital.

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The latest version of the shield is at the Institutional Review Board level at the hospital, which Van and Oakley said is too premature in the operation to name publicly as of yet, for official testing and possible approval, with the goal of passing off the operation to have the equipment manufactured en masse by a large-scale Boston corporation. “We kind of keep asking ourselves, why are […]

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