After 20 Years Climbing Into Dangerous Oil Tanks, This Captain Built a Robot to Keep Sailors Safe
Reported byThe Better India ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
Captain DC Sekhar, after nearly two decades entering and cleaning more than 150 petroleum tanks in the Merchant Navy, founded BetaTANK Robotics to replace this deadly manual work with remote-controlled robots that eliminate worker exposure to confined spaces, poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas, and oxygen-deficient environments.
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