As the environmental services industry shifts towards robotics and other fast-emerging tech, NEA is funding innovations like a waterway cleaning robot.
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National Environment Agency organises the annual summit, where it spotlights new technologies being developed for the cleaning sector and connects innovators with investors. Mr Zhang told CNA that robots help to save on costs normally incurred by manual labour, and eliminate the need for people to physically clean waterways.
NEA’s national robotics programme supported the research group’s development of robots to make work processes safer and more productive. “ deploying the robots, pest control personnel can simply control, operate, monitor the robot, and the robot will go into the nooks and corners of false ceilings, looking for scratch marks and rodent droppings,” Assoc Prof Mohan noted.
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