Tomsk student develops sleeping pit road robot

The student of Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a robot, able to patch up the road well. This was reported on the website of the Federal portal “Russian education”.
 
Developer traffic robot says that the device is working offline. Although human presence is still desirable. “A robot with a camera finds a hole, drove up to her, scans the ultrasonic sensor and builds a depth map, and then falls asleep pit special emulsion”, — explained the project author Vsevolod Races.
 
Soon the robot will undergo a trial operation. A working prototype of the robot may appear in a year or two.
 
13 May it was reported that dental technicians Barnaul fall asleep the pit on the street Zarinsk casts and models of teeth. The participants noted that after some time the casts will turn to dust.
 
In May in Murmansk a hole on the road the same way “repaired” cucumbers. In Izhevsk in April, unknown staged a funeral of asphalt on the roads: they buried part of the pits and set a cross with the inscription “Asphalt 2014-2015, remember, mourn”. In February, in the village Volya, Voronezh region, local residents have decorated the potholes colours.
 
14 APR during the direct line with President of Russia Vladimir Putin the inhabitant of Omsk complained to the head of the state on poor condition of roads in the city. In response, the President proposed to increase road funds by 40 billion roubles, and “make it so that funds went to road construction or repair.”

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