CIJConnect Bot-enabled WhatsApp today at 4:00 PM.
The Optimists: ‘It is simpler than asking a person to use the machine’
Varun Karthikeyan R, Managing Director of Roots Multiclean Ltd
As you are functioning in the European international market, what have been your observations?
A. In the European market, robotics has been increasing slowly over the last six years. Robotics definitely is an area where everybody is concentrating. We have our own plans. In the future, when we launch, we will launch. But definitely for the Indian market, robotics is a good area for everybody to look at.
Do you think that the Indian market or Indian facilities are ready to run robotic machines?
A. It is simpler than a regular person asking you to use the machine. It is more complex when you need to use your brain. Once you map everything out and press start, the robotic machine does everything for you.
Do you think mapping in Indian facilities is a challenge?
A. I don’t think so; that is the same everywhere. I do not see that as an issue. Probably the crowd is a little bit more, and the robot must align towards that crowd and navigate around them.
In some places I believe that you can’t program it, or sometimes the robot hits the side. Is this true?
A. No, wherever a person is using the machine, the robot will obviously go. As long as you select the right size of robotic scrubber, it should cover the same area that a regular machine covers.
” Once you map everything out and press start, it does everything for you… the right machine, the right footprint, the right willingness, and the country will follow.” — Varun Karthikeyan R
