FLORIDA: 04, NOVEMBER, 2020: In an attempt to ease insert and remove contact lenses, a Florida man, Craig Hershoff, invented a robot to assist people with dexterity issues insert and remove their eye lenses without another person’s help.

For people who have no option but to wear contact lenses on a regular basis, the struggle to insert and remove the optical aid is a painful one. However, Miami man's invention could be the solution to these woes, a voice-activated robot to insert and remove contact lenses. 

He himself uses special contacts known as scleral lenses because he suffers from a condition known as Fuchs Dystrophy that requires him to wear a special lens.

Hershoff told the aim of his new invention to help other people, especially elderly patients, who are having issues to insert and remove contacts. 

He invented a voice-activated robot called "Claira Lens Robot for the insertion and removal of eye lenses which was tried on elderly people. 

The robot is currently undergoing clinical trials in Boston and Craig Hershoff likely to get approval from US Food and Drug Administration to market it as early as 2021. (04)