What’s ‘automatic’ about Gurugram’s new garbage cleaning machine? Internet isn’t convinced

The video was shared by the X account @gemsofbabus_ with the caption: “Gurugram Municipality has introduced an Automatic Garbage Cleaning Machine to help keep the city’s streets clean.”

Watch the video:

🚨 Gurugram Municipality has introduced an Automatic Garbage Cleaning Machine to help keep the city’s streets clean. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/STaFNCOBtb

— Gems (@gemsofbabus_) September 28, 2026

The use of the word “automatic” quickly became the focus of comments. Several users questioned how automated the machine actually was when it still needed a worker to move it around and operate the suction pipe.

“Unable to understand if its a troll post or you serious,” an X user wrote. Another questioned the need for the machine, saying, “Automatic? Then why this guy doing manual work and how those big cardboard and paper gets sucked in to the vacuum cleaner, again big scam to make money by Contractors and Govt Contracting.”

Others argued that a simpler solution could have worked just as well. “It would be much easier to collect garbage using dustbins rather than this fancy, slow machine. All they have to do is place a dustbin,” one comment read.

Another user joked about the machine’s supposedly automatic nature: “Watched the whole video, waiting for the ‘automatic’ part. Is the man using the equipment called Automatic?”

The video has thus drawn attention less for the machine and more for the question of what qualifies as an “automatic” garbage-cleaning system when human operation is still required.