In Chennai, a drainage-cleaning robot named Bandicoot has been introduced for the first time at the city corporation as part of efforts to rid of manual scavenging.
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According to officials, the robot named Bandicoot has been introduced at a cost of 18 lakh ruppes. Tamil Nadu Minister Kadambur Raju inaugurated the operation of the robot which would end deaths of workers engaged in sewer cleaning.
Bandicoot, with its motto ‘changing manhole to robohole’, is a human controlled robot. It’s the brainchild of Genrobotics, a Thiruvananthapuram-based start-up which was founded in 2015.
As opposed to the sewer suction machines that only suck the liquid waste from the sewer, Bandicoot has the ability to reach deep down the drainage and remove the solid waste, hence unblocking the sewage.
It has a shovel and a jet pipe attached to it which makes it better equipped to clean the sewage, along with a camera that can aid in inspecting the manhole for any blockages.
Bandicoot can finish the work of five people in lesser time with better efficiency and is available in both automatic and semi-automatic modes.
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