IIT Madras’ sewage cleaning robot deployed; more states may follow (www.techcircle.in)

HomoSEP, a sewage and septic tank cleaning robot developed indigenously by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M), is being implemented in the real world. According to a statement from the institute, two HomoSEP robots have been distributed through a non-government organization (NGO), Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA), in the state of Tamil Nadu.

This will be a big help in bringing manual scavenging to an end