Designed around experience.
Built as a predecessor to Drain X.1, its design to be tough and strong. This product showcase a significant improvement over the current drain inspection robots as it offers amazing features like sample collection, remote pesticide dispensing, and highly functional semi-autonomous capabilities, all packaged in a compact device.
For this project, I was given the opportunity to do the industrial, User experience design and mechanical engineering design. The overall design approach was to prioritizes the user experience and to build the robot around that.
Major challenge was to build a robotic solution which is robust and User friendly, yet can adapt to huge diversity in drain structures; in terms of width, shape of drain channels, depth of drain from the pavement, and types of obstacles to over come inside the drain.
This robot was developed by SUTD(Singapore University of technology and Design), funded by National Robotic Programme, Singapore. The final product was exhibited in CESG 2022 (Clean Enviro Singapore ) and ITAP 2022 (Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC)
Drain inspection robot exhibited in #ITAP2022(Singapore) in National Robotics Programme’s booth.
DPM Heng Swee Keat visited the National Robotics Programme's booth at #ITAP2022 this year, where the team took him through a live demonstration of Singapore's robotics capabilities and solutions that are having a societal and economic impact.
Modular Architecture
Reconfigurable widths
