China has deployed robot traffic police across its cities that cannot issue fines or make arrests but instead flag violations with polite warnings, and are built to operate through rush hour, extreme heat and poor weather without stopping.
At a busy intersection in Hangzhou, in eastern China, a 1.88-metre, 98-kilogram robot developed by local technology firm SUPCON Information watches the road, identifies violations and swings its mechanical arms in sync with traffic signals. It is part of a pilot programme aimed at handing some of the most repetitive traffic-control duties to machines, Reuters reported.
