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BANDICOOT

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  • Published
    31st Jul, 2020
  • Minister of Guwahati Development Department inaugurated Guwahati’s first manhole cleaning robot named “BANDICOOT”, an automatic sewer cleaning device.
  • Guwahati became the first city in the Northeast region to get a manhole cleaning robot.
  • BANDICOOT was developed by Genrobotics, an Indian startup company under the Make in India initiative.
  • After Gurugram and Coimbatore, Guwahati is the third city to acquire the technology to clean manhole.

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