Archive · 22 Sep 2025
IIT-Kgp Professor Designs Robots to Aid Workers, Reduce Hazards
A professor at IIT-Kgp is building robots to help people who work in tough or dangerous jobs.
One robot can help farmers by spraying pesticides and checking for plant diseases.
There's also a robot for checking railway tracks, which can find cracks.
Another robot crawls inside pipes to check for problems.
These robots use cameras and special tools to do their jobs.
The goal is to make work safer and easier for people.
Professor Pratihar designs robots to aid manual laborers in hazardous environments.
A farm robot detects diseases and sprays pesticides to protect crops.
The farm robot uses a tracked vehicle for uneven terrains and image analysis to identify diseases.
A railway track-inspection robot uses a camera to identify defects.
Pratihar is also developing pipe-crawling and spider-like robots.
- Who
- Professor Dilip Kumar Pratihar and team
- What
- Designing robots to assist laborers in agriculture, railway track inspection, and hazardous environments.
- When
- Ongoing development and testing
- Where
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) and various work environments
- Why
- To assist workers in dangerous jobs, improve efficiency, and reduce risks.
- Researcher
- Professor Dilip Kumar Pratihar
- Institution
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp)
- Focus
- Robotics for labor assistance
- Robot Types
- Farm, railway track inspection, pipe-crawling, hexapod
- Patent
- Indian patent for farm robot granted