Pune city police gets ‘Daksh’ robot for bomb disposal

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After Army and central paramilitary forces, Pune city police has got Daksh, an electrically powered and remotely controlled robot used for locating, handling and destroying hazardous objects safely. Daksh has been designed and developed by Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) [R&DE (E)], Pune, It is the first indigenously developed unmanned vehicle or mobile-robot in the country.

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On Tuesday, Pune police commissioner Dr K Venkatesham tweeted, “Meet the latest member of team @PuneCityPolice , ROV-DAKSH, a remotely operated robot, by DRDO, Pune, for bomb disposal. Daksh will be serving the city with us for the next six months #TechnologyOnDuty”

Officials said that Daksh, a state-of-the-art ROV, will be an invaluable asset for Bomb Disposal Units of the Army, Police and Paramilitary Forces for handling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and hazardous objects.

Meet the latest member of team @PuneCityPolice , ROV-DAKSH, a remotely operated robot, by DRDO, Pune, for bomb disposal. Daksh will be serving the city with us for the next six months #TechnologyOnDuty pic.twitter.com/VQYyA2sNLO

— CP Pune City (@CPPuneCity) October 9, 2018

Daksh is a battery-operated remote-controlled robot on wheels that was created with a primary function of bomb recovery. Developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation, it is fully automated. It can navigate staircases, negotiate steep slopes, navigate narrow corridors and tow vehicles to reach hazardous materials. Using its robotized arm, it can lift a suspect object and scan it using its portable X-Ray device. If the object is a bomb, Daksh can defuse it with its water jet disrupter.

It has a shotgun, which can break open locked doors, and it can scan cars for explosives. With a master control station (MCS), it can be remotely controlled over a range of 500 m in line of sight or within buildings. Ninety per cent of the robot’s components are indigenous. The Army has also placed limited series production orders for 20 Dakshs. The first batch of five units was handed over to General Combat Engineers, on 19 December 2011. The technology has been transferred for production to three firms, Dynalog, Theta Controls, and Bharat Electronics Ltd.