While rural fintech and lending startups Jai Kisan The first round of voting was neck and neck with GenRobotic, the Thiruvananthapuram-based startup leading the way as an 11-member jury discussed the novelty of the idea of using robots to transform manual scavenging.
A deciding factor was GenRobotic’s ability to deploy its solutions with multiple customers and turn a profit, focusing on rehabilitating workers who lost their jobs to its robots. ETSA 2021 jury.
“Generobotic is bringing together technology, purpose and profitability, which is rare and extremely valuable,” said Ankiti Bose, cofounder and chief executive of B2B ecommerce platform Zilingo, who was part of the jury. “Their tremendous growth and recognition in the market is a testament to their incredible vision of transforming humans for jobs that no one should be doing in this day and age.”
Established in 2017, Genrobotic’s first product ‘Bandicoot’ is targeted to eliminate the practice of manual scavenging in India. a kind of mouse There is a robot that can clean and maintain the sewer. It has two major units – a standing unit and a robotic drone unit, which dives into manholes and sewers for cleaning and unblocking.
The company has already deployed over 100 such robots for its customers including governments, hospitals, rehabilitation centres, refineries and private contractors.
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GenRobotic also works closely with sweepers, educating them on technology, and has made its robots as user-friendly as possible, so that sweepers can use them with ease.
“This award will create awareness of what we are trying to do. We want to completely eliminate the practice of manual scavenging in India,” said Vimal Govind, Co-Founder and CEO, Genrobotic Innovations. Looking at the industry, there has not been any major development in this area. People are still using age-old technology.”
In 2018, Genrobotic
won a contest Organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for technical solutions to address the issue of manual scavenging. The startup has also been recognized by the Smart Cities Mission which envisages providing core infrastructure, clean and sustainable environment to the cities and a good quality of life to its citizens.
Govind said that Genrobotic Innovation intends to develop robotic solutions to address various other issues and wants to make robots to replace people where the risk to human life is very high. “We are also providing solutions to problems related to oil and gas refinery as that too is a toxic environment.”
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