Explanation:

Researchers from India and the United Kingdom have developed a hand-washing robot named Pepe.

• The robot was created to encourage children to wash their hands.
• The project comes under the ‘social robot’ research project.
• The project is the second ‘social robot’ research project conducted by the University of Glasgow and Amrita University.
• In 2018 they introduced a four-wheeled robot to help residents of Ayyampathy in southern India carry 20-liter bottles of water from a local well to their homes.
• According to the World Health Organization, hand-washing can help protect from diarrhea, cholera, and other such sanitary diseases.
• The government has recently launched the WASH scheme for the measures in lines with sanitation and hygiene.