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Down the drain: A sewer-cleaning robot

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Aditi Rajagopal | Mohit Rao
April 8, 2022

Cleaning a sewage system is an unpleasant and even dangerous task. Sounds like the perfect job for a robot. Now a tech company in Kerala has developed a prototype for India's first sewer cleaning robot.

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