“We spent close to 30 minutes inside a manhole every day, and continued with our 8-10 hour shifts thereafter,” says Bherve, now 35. If we outsourced, we wouldn’t have been able to control the lead time.”With the first production facility set up in Thiruvananthapuram, Genrobotics started manufacturing two to three units of Bandicoot per month. But it required a lot more R&D and funding than Bandicoot,” says Vimal. “But the founders have built a classy product, and have also cracked the code of working with government bodies. “Because it’s something they have been doing for years, across generations,” says Arun.

Source: Forbes June 21, 2022 08:04 UTC