Robo In The Pit
Kerala based Genrobotics uses automation to address manual scavenging
As the mercury hits 45 degree Celsius on a Friday afternoon in June, there is a throng of onlookers at a small intersection in a housing colony in Gurgaon. Apart from the bystanders, there are sanitation workers and officials from the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board too. They have all assembled to witness something they have only heard about, but never seen a robot in action. The cynosure, meanwhile, with four legs on wheels stands atop a manhole, which it would soon clean.
As an electric generator comes to life, Bandicoot the robot preps
