The Vadodara Municipal Corporation  is going to become a pioneer to adopt a revolutionary way to clean our gutters as a part of the smart city project. For the last 5 days, a Kerela based startup, Genrobotics, have cleaned more than 40 drainage systems which would have otherwise required 120 workers to climb into and out of manholes. [caption id="attachment_7685" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Bandicoot even works at night[/caption] The municipal corporation will soon buy the robots after the elections. Mayor Jigisha Sheth said this was to stop manual scavengers from entering drainage holes and falling ill from the diseases they contract in the drainage system. [caption id="attachment_7686" align="aligncenter" width="300"]

Author-Sweta Joshi