Suraj N & Dr. Veena K N – Drona Automations

Founder Suraj N pitching Bangalore-based Drona Automations – a startup that designs and develops sewer pipe cleaning robots, to clean the manhole sewer pipes and other small sewer pipes.

website: http://dronaautomations.com

“There are technologies to go into space, but there is no technology to go 10 feet below the ground and clean the sewer pipes. This thought made us work towards eliminatin manual scavenging of manholes,” says Suraj. “Our idea started with a group of three mechanical engineers who participated in the IIT Bombay competition and won a national level award. Later we formed an interdisciplinary team of 26 Students from various engineering departments and worked on the real time prototype for about 4 years during our college days. So the students who worked on the prototype started their own startup 4 months back. Our robots should be a necessity to clean pipes everywhere.”

The startups aims to build three products and has developed two prototypes of one of them so far.

Founders:

Mr. Suraj N,
Mechanical Engineer, REVA University
2 Years experience in Automation

Dr. Veena K N
Ph.D Neural Networks, Kuvempu University
10+ years experience in Robotics