Photo Gallery: USC Verdugo Hills Hospital shows Xenex robot to 6th grade class at Fremont Elementary

CEO of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Keith Hobbs asks the classroom who many had gotten the flu this year in the 6th grade class at Fremont Elementary School on Monday, March 13, 2017. Hobbs, with other hospital representatives, showed the classroom their Xenex germ-zapping robot that kills harmful bacteria in hospitals using ultraviolet C rays that kill the bad bugs that are causing so many hospital infections. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital is the only hospital in the area with the device, and they used the device in the classroom to kill the germs the students were surrounded by, though they did this after everyone had left to make sure nobody’s eyes were damaged.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

A Xenex robot sits in the middle of a 6th grade classroom at Fremont Elementary School on Monday, March 13, 2017. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital is the only hospital in the area with the device that kills harmful bacteria in hospitals using ultraviolet C rays that kill the bad bugs that are causing so many hospital infections.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Jeff Mamalakis, Business Development Manager with Xenex Germ-Zapping Robots watches a LightStrike robot lift a high-powered ultraviolet C emitting bulb up in the 6th grade class at Fremont Elementary School on Monday, March 13, 2017. The light was not turned on in the classroom due to the damage it could do to unprotected eyes. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital is the only hospital in the area with the device that kills harmful bacteria in hospitals using ultraviolet C rays that kill the bad bugs that are causing so many hospital infections.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

USC Verdugo Hills Hospital CEO Keith Hobbs, who as a youth attended Fremont Elementary, sits in a student’s desk during a discussion about the hospital’s Xenex germ-zapping robot in the 6th grade class at Fremont Elementary School on Monday, March 13, 2017. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital is the only hospital in the area with the device that kills harmful bacteria in hospitals using ultraviolet C rays that kill the bad bugs that are causing so many hospital infections.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Mary Virgallito, Director of Patient Safety at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital talks about how the LightStrike robot she is standing next to kills harful germs in hospitals to the 6th grade class at Fremont Elementary School on Monday, March 13, 2017. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital is the only hospital in the area with the device that kills harmful bacteria in hospitals using ultraviolet C rays that kill the bad bugs that are causing so many hospital infections.  (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)