Martin Brown wrote:

They had also replaced the classic manual testing rig with an entirely
automated streamlined robotic thing like a cross between a vertically
mounted frisbee and binoculars. You could hear it whirring away to
itself as it altered which lenses it interposed.

That's not a covid response, the specsavers I went to over 2 years ago
(just had the reminder to re-book) had one of them