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This Low-Cost Robot Designed By Mumbai Students Could Clean Up The Pollution In India’s Rivers

This Low-Cost Robot Designed By Mumbai Students Could Clean Up The Pollution In India’s Rivers

by The Daily Eye Team March 27 2017, 12:45 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

With water pollution continuing to be a major environmental threat to the nation, a group of determined students have developed a unique robot that may hold the key to solving the imminent problems posed by pollution. The students of Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology (VESIT) in Mumbai, have designed a robot named SEARCh that can clean the waste that gets accumulated on the surface of water bodies, including rivers.For starters, it is a raft-like structure made out of PVC pipes and used rubber. It’s got a conveyor belt that collects the garbage and drops it into a carrier that is also present on the raft.

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