Glass Façade cum Canopy Cleaning Robot - Video

Glass Façade cum Canopy Cleaning Robot |Advancing Safety & Efficiency in Building Maintenance

With the rapid rise of high-rise, glass-clad buildings across our cities, façade and canopy maintenance have become both essential and extremely hazardous. Manual cleaning exposes workers to unsafe heights, unpredictable weather, equipment failures, and long-term fatigue — often resulting in serious injuries and fatalities worldwide.

CSIR-CBRI has been working to address this critical challenge through robotic automation.

Presenting our Glass Façade cum Canopy Cleaning Robot — an innovative, compact, and field-tested solution designed to enhance worker safety, improve cleaning consistency, and reduce operational costs.

Key Highlights:
1. Eliminates human exposure to dangerous heights
2. Ensures uniform, high-quality cleaning
3. Lightweight, portable, and easy to deploy
4. Cleaning efficiency up to 500 m²/hour (for 1 meter length roller brush)
5. Advanced features: obstacle/collision avoidance, cliff/edge detection, manual/PID-based path corrections
6. Low maintenance with quick ROI
7. Field-ready canopy cleaning system; façade system undergoing evaluations

This technology has been transferred to M/s Pal N Paul Incorporation, Ambala City, Haryana, marking a significant milestone in industry–research collaboration.

As cities grow vertically, innovations like these will play a vital role in ensuring safer, smarter, and more sustainable building maintenance practices.

CSIR-CBRI congratulates Dr Ravindra Bisht, Dr S. K. Panigrahi, Dr Soju Alexander, Dr Siddharth Singh, Mr Chandrabhan Patel, Mr Kanti Lal Solanki, Mr V. Chakradhar, Mr Dinesh Kumar, Mr Sameer and the project staff who contributed from time to time at the CAR Group for developing this innovative technology.

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For more details, contact;
Director, CSIR-CBRI
[email protected]