Robots and drones made in Leeds to repair potholes and street lights

SCIENTISTS at Leeds University are to create new robots and drones to help fix street lights and potholes as part of an ambitious plan to create “self-repairing cities.”

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Academics are leading a pioneering £4.2m national research project to develop small robots which can identify problems with utility pipes, street lights and roads and fix them. The idea is to create a “self repairing city” where working robots would cause minimal environmental impact and disruption to the public. More...

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