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Start-up GRoboMac to pilot robot cotton-picking in TN this summer
Eco-friendly Robot Machinery Pvt Ltd (GRoboMac), a Bengaluru-centered farm robotics start out-up, ideas to pilot its battery-operated cotton picking robot named Pragati in Tamil Nadu all around June-July for harvesting the summer months crop. “We prepare to deploy the 4-arm model robot as a pilot on a 12-acre plot in Tamil Nadu,” explained Manohar Sambandam, Founding Partner and CEO, Eco-friendly Robot Machinery Pvt Ltd. Cotton is developed in pieces of the rice fallows in the Cauvery delta location of Tamil Nadu as a summer months crop, which is typically harvested all through June-July. GRoboMac is also eyeing the commercialisation of Pragati in the forthcoming kharif harvest period by October, Sambandam…