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Sanitary workers can monitor the cleaning by staying outside the manholes,” Govind added. Trichy: After successfully reclaiming a dump yard through biomining, the Kumbakonam municipality has set another benchmark for civic bodies by introducing Bandicoot, a semi-automatic robot that could enter manholes and clean underground drainage (UGD) chambers.The robot would eliminate the need for sanitary workers to enter manholes for cleaning the sewage lines. As we are in the process of covering entire town under UGD, Bandicoot will help us remove sewage blocks safely in a short time,” commissioner of Kumbakonam municipality, K Uma Maheshwari said.Around 400 manholes can be cleaned by the human-controlled robot per month. Without entering a manhole, sanitary workers can clear the UGD chambers,” Govind told TOI.While Bandicoot, weighing 90kg is already in place at Thiruvananthapuram, Team Genrobotics said the device introduced in Kumbakonam is a light-weight version, weighing only 65kg. The cost of Bandicoot is priced at Rs 17 lakh..