NEWS – India’s first septic tank/manhole cleaning robot, Homosep Atom launched

HOMOSEP ATOM

• By – Solinas, Incubated in the DST-TBI of IIT Madras
• Aim – Eliminates manual scavenging through robotic cleaning methods
• It has reached 16 cities in different parts of India and empowers extensive blade cleanings, solid waste desilting, suction and storage at one device; thereby reducing the cost of owning multiple assets and promotes robotic cleaning in sewers
• Targeting septic tanks associated with large apartments, housing boards, and individual houses, 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 and avoid going inside the toxic environment, thus providing dignity to the sanitary workers.

SOLINAS

• Deep-tech and climate tech startup born out of IIT Madras
• Founded with the intent to solve the challenges that revolutionizes the water and sanitation sector and improves the climatic conditions
• Specialises 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
• The exposure it received through support from DST ensured that the solutions were both sustainable and scalable
• 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