Saw this demo of a humanoid care robot in a hospital setting,kinda cool, but also feels a bit strange seeing robots in such a sensitive space.Can definitely help with workload, but makes me wonder how much care we’re okay handing over to machines.
This video shows one of China’s massive training labs, but even from video alone, it’s clear that things have already advanced far beyond setups like this.
Every year, hundreds of sanitation workers in India die inside sewers suffocated by toxic gases, drowned in waste, forgotten by the system. For decades, nobody built a real solution. They just kept sending humans down.
Then a group of engineers from Kerala decided that enough was enough. In 2017, Genrobotics built the Bandicoot the world’s first robotic scavenger that cleans sewers without a single human going inside. Backed by Zoho, Unicorn India Ventures, and Rajan Anandan, they have raised $5.43 million and are valued at INR 223 crore today.
And now the world is noticing. Genrobotics just beat 600 global companies to win an INR 80 crore contract from PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency. They will deploy 44 robots to upgrade Singapore’s water infrastructure over the next two years. Revenue is at INR 32 crore in FY2025, with an IPO planned around FY2028-29. A startup that solved India’s most ignored problem is now cleaning the sewers of one of the most advanced cities in the world.