Suresh Mykswamy, a robotic engineering professor from Coimbatore has developed an automatic robotic toilet cleaning machine. He developed this machine after Supreme Court banned the manual cleaning of public toilets and instructed all the state governments to develop automatic systems for the cleaning. While speaking to ANI, Suresh said, "The main idea of developing this machine was to reduce the work of the sanitary workers." He informed this project was funded by the State Science and Technology department.