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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Barkham

Inventor says robo-vaccination machine could be used to combat bovine TB

A man sitting at a desk.
Tony Cholerton, a retired London zookeeper and inventor of the Robovacc. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

It began with the tiger who wouldn’t come to tea. Cinta was so shy that she refused to feed when keepers at London zoo were around, and staff wondered how they would ever administer the young animal’s vaccinations without traumatising her.

So Tony Cholerton, a zookeeper who had been a motorcycle engineer for many years, invented Robovacc – a machine to quickly administer vital jabs without the presence of people.

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