India’s first septic tank cleaning robot, offering an end-to-end solution to eliminate manual scavenging, is strengthening the Swachhata Abhiyan in different corners of the country. The technology, called Homosep Atom, developed by the startup incubated in the Department of Science and Technology (DST)-Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of IIT Madras, transforms manual cleaning methods into robotic cleaning methods.
Reaching Across India
Homosep Atom has reached 16 cities in different parts of India, promoting robotic cleaning in sewers and reducing the cost of owning multiple assets.
Empowering Sanitary Workers
The startup, Solinas, developed this affordable robotic solution integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to inspect, clean, and manage confined spaces for sanitation purposes. This process enabled Municipalities to promptly and efficiently clean, clear, and transport waste to treatment plants. Besides, sanitary workers were empowered with manhole cleaning robots that helped them clean the manholes from outside, thus providing dignity to the sanitary workers.
Solinas: A Deep-Tech Startup
Solinas is a deep-tech and climate tech startup born out of IIT Madras, founded with the intent to solve the challenges that revolutionize the water and sanitation sector and improve the climatic conditions.
Addressing Contamination Challenges
The startup specializes in developing miniature robots, including India’s 1st 90mm water robot and 120mm sewer robot, capable of navigating through pipelines below 100mm to address contamination challenges in water-sewer pipelines.
Solving Climatic Challenges
Solinas’s technologies solved some of the existing climatic challenges like water wastages, groundwater pollution, climate change, and day-to-day human challenges like manual scavenging, drinking contaminated water, combined sewer overflows, etc.
Improving Water Supply
Solinas’s AI-based pipeline defect identification and assessment services helped save costs, reduce resolution time, and improve drinking water supply to the entire Hubbali city which provided drinking water supply to more than 1000 households.
Conclusion
DST’s support for such startups is a major source of encouragement for youngsters who are inspired by the Government start-up movement to develop their knowledge-based enterprises and solve societal challenges as well as contribute to the growth and development of the country.
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