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Considering that one of the ways to reduce the risk of contagion is by avoiding contact and closeness between people when exchanging supplies such as food, medicine, clothing, etc., this work proposes the use of a planar cable-driven parallel robot for the transport of supplies in hospitals whose room distribution has planar architecture. The robot acts in accordance with a procedure proposed for each task to be carried out, which includes the process of disinfection (based on Ultraviolet-C light) of the supplies transported inside the robot\u2019s end effector. 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