Covid Visors for Frontline NHS Staff

A team of engineers from Centre for Intelligent Transport and the Centre for Advanced Robotics teamed up with clinicians at the Royal London Dental Hospital to provide hospital staff with urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 crisis.

The team took on the mammoth task of fabricating visor frames using the 3D printing facilities available within the School of Engineering and Materials Science. The team successfully provide hospital staff with the needed visors in a very short time. Later, the visors were produced using injection moulding to be able to keep up with the continued demand for this type of protection.

The work was financially supported by the Queen Mary University of London Impact Accelerator Award - COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Acceleration Fund and also won a Queen Mary Engagement and Impact Award.