G-Spider, AI-equipped canal cleaning system, launched in Thiruvananthapuram

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Minister for Local Self Governments M.B. Rajesh launching G-Spider, an Artificial Intelligence-equipped canal cleaning robotic strategy   developed by startup Genrobotics successful  Thiruvananthapuram connected  Wednesday.

Minister for Local Self Governments M.B. Rajesh launching G-Spider, an Artificial Intelligence-equipped canal cleaning robotic strategy developed by startup Genrobotics successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Minister for Local Self Governments M.B. Rajesh connected Wednesday launched G-Spider, an Artificial Intelligence-equipped canal cleaning robotic strategy developed by startup Genrobotics astatine the Amayizhanjan canal adjacent Thampanoor successful Thiruvananthapuram. The robotic strategy was archetypal deployed adjacent the spot wherever sanitation idiosyncratic N. Joy ventured into the canal for cleaning successful 2024 and mislaid his life.

“I had promised backmost past that nary 1 would ever person to bash specified a occupation again, similar Joy. That committedness has been kept today. Apart from ensuring that nary 1 other volition person to spell done what Joy experienced, this is besides an important measurement successful the Malinya Muktham Nava Keralam project. After the incident, Vimal Govind, 1 of the owners of Genrobotics, approached maine with an thought for designing specified a system. He was advised to spell up with the task and the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation was tasked with implementing it connected the aforesaid day,” wrote Mr. Rajesh successful his Facebook page.

He said that Genrobotics designed and installed the strategy free-of-charge. The corp is liable for civilian works and cognition and maintenance. Of the full 7 CBG plants to beryllium commissioned successful the authorities for coagulated discarded disposal, 1 volition beryllium installed successful the capital, helium said.

Thiruvananthapuram Mayor V.V. Rajesh presided implicit the function. Mr. Rajesh said the civic assemblage volition research each the possibilities of making usage of the exertion developed by the company.

G-Spider is designed to run successful analyzable and high-risk canal environments without requiring immoderate quality entry. Built connected a Cable-Driven Parallel Robotics architecture integrated with AI-enabled ocular and sensor intelligence, the strategy enables precise detection, assessment, and removal of accumulated waste. It employs instrumentality imaginativeness and intelligent sensors to autonomously observe and measure discarded successful existent time. The strategy dynamically adapts to varying discarded types, travel conditions, and structural constraints wrong the canal.

Published - January 28, 2026 08:55 p.m. IST

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