Hyderabad, March 12 -- The state government on Tuesday deployed a robot to assist the rescue teams in tracing the remaining seven persons trapped under the debris in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district.

According to an official statement, on the 18th day of rescue operations, representatives from Hyderabad-based Anvi Robotics, Vijay and Akshay, entered the tunnel via a loco train on Tuesday morning, along with the robot, equipped with an AI-based camera system. The representatives also set up a communication system at the nearby office to facilitate coordination.

Robotic assistance is being utilised to ensure that no human casualties occur during the rescue operations, the statement said.

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