Robot cleaner for airport platforms

GREATER Anglia (GA) is investing more than £23,000 in an ‘Eco Bot 50’ cleaning robot for use on platforms and concourses at Stansted Airport station.

Fitted with more than 20 sensors and cameras, the robot cleaner can avoid obstacles and requires no human intervention. It returns automatically to its charging point when low power is detected.

Meanwhile, GA has expanded the operations of its new Class 720 ‘Aventra’ EMUs to the Clacton and Ipswich routes as more diagrams move over to the new trains.

The Alstom-built trains already work to Southend, Southminster and Braintree, and the roll-out to other routes will be completed by the end of 2021, GA says.