The bots make their way through the sewers with insecticide and hot water blasters.
These multipurpose robots come with a suite of tools, digital cameras, and LED lights that help them visualize the sewer environment, detect mosquito larvae in areas with standing water, and either spray the area with insecticide or blast it with hot water. The wheeled robots crawl at a rate of 5 meters/min . They’re also designed in a way that prevents them from being overturned in areas where it would be difficult for humans to set them right again.
The target for these robots are mosquitoes in the genusLook inside London’s new Super Sewer, an engineering marvel for rubbish and pooTo surveil mosquito activity around the ditches, scientists also set up a series of Gravitraps that can be used to lure and capture female mosquitoes. The team later analyzed these specimens to see where the dengue-positive mosquitoes tend to go.
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