The company has devised a special assembly for automated disinfectant spraying, mounted on AGV RAGHAV helping hospitals and healthcare centres to autonomously disinfect the wards, operation theatres, passages and overall premises. Thus, RAGHAV is serving as a corona warrior by helping the healthcare representatives on the frontline.

Material handling, in general, refers to the movement of any kind of material/load from one place to the other whether it’s in the manufacturing sector like on shop-floors and warehouses or in a service-based sector like hospitals and hotels. Auto Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are the latest trend in material handling. AGVs are portable robots, which follow a prefixed path for navigation. They can tow the material stored on trailers and trolleys attached behind them or can store the material on the overhead beds for conveyance. They are used as a means of transport where repetitive movement of material is required with little or no human interaction. Now a days, they are deployed in nearly every industry including automobile, food, pharmaceuticals and textiles, their scope ranging from handling raw materials to finished products.  

Rucha Yantra focuses on designing user-friendly minimalistic AGVs which give the customers exactly what they need instead of adding unnecessary complex features. So, what makes its AGVs special? Adaptability! 

The company’s flagship AGV RAGHAV is a breakthrough solution in mobile robotics for heavy material movement on shop-floors ensuring high level of safety. RAGHAV is twin type AGV which can tow trolleys or even carry bins/pallets as a unit load carriage. RAGHAV AGVs use coloured path guidance technology which is 3x more flexible and lower in maintenance than traditional magnetic tape or laser-based navigation. A more advanced SLAM based Natural Navigation variant is also available which relies on static natural features in the environment and does not need additional navigation aids like tapes, reflectors etc. 

RAGHAV is affordable and very low maintenance. It is also very easy to install as it requires negligible floor modifications. Due its petite size, it can be used even in confined spaces and hence by small, medium and large-scale industries equally. With an added advantage of path reversal mechanism, it becomes even more easy to operate on small paths with no turning space. RAGHAV comes with advanced safety features like automatic collision detection, accurate obstacle detection and emergency switch which make it safe to operate along with humans.

RAGHAV can carry as much as 1500 KG of load at a time and hence is much faster than manual labour or other traditional material handling technics. This not only improves the efficiency but also increases the productivity and ROI. Given the current scenario, when there are fewer people at work, deploying AGVs like RAGHAV can definitely help to achieve the desired outputs. Since it operates in a contactless manner, it also helps to maintain an overall hygienic work environment.

RAGHAV is very adaptable. It has innumerable applications. Over the past 2 years RAGHAV has been used in food processing, textile, automobile, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. But the real adaptation of RAGHAV is it being used in GMC Hospital to deliver medicine, food, linen and other essentials to patients quarantine and isolation wards. The company has also devised a special assembly for automated disinfectant spraying, mounted on RAGHAV. This helps hospitals and healthcare centres to autonomously disinfect the wards, operation theatres, passages and overall premises. Thus, RAGHAV is also serving as a corona warrior by helping the healthcare representatives on the frontline.

Along with saving man hours, RAGHAV also helps to achieve the maximum ROI by building a safer work environment. 

To know more about RAGHAV and other products by Rucha Yantra, visit www.yantrallp.com