You will have a city that will use robots to repair itself first in the world

They are autonomous drones, sweeping roads, checking and fixing potholes.

England has the first city to use robots to repair

Every day, a city may encounter numerous minor problems related to street lights, sidewalks, plumbing . It would be a waste to change the car from the urban management unit to your home only to fix a light bulb. So let the robot do it automatically.

It is a unique idea of ​​the University of Leeds, England. They have the ambition to create the world's first self-repair robot city by 2035. With £ 4.3 million ($ 6.3 million), the project will develop robots. Tiny is capable of solving all problems related to lights, plumbing and roads in the city.

A robot works in the University of Leeds pipeline.

The robots will be classified into 3 types. The first type, the "parked and repaired" robots , literally, are designed as a plane capable of parking on high infrastructure structures and performing repairs. The object targeted first is the street light.

The second robot is called "analysis and patching" , they are drone drones, sweeping roads, checking and fixing potholes. The other, self-targeted robots will live in pipes and control and fix errors if any.

"We will create the first city in the world with no disruption in the operation of the street infrastructure , " Phil Purnell, Professor of Engineering at Leeds University wrote on the project website.

Japan uses drones to control automatic bulldozers.

The amount of the project to date has been included in the £ 21 million (about $ 32 million) package that the University of Leeds receives funding to address practical issues of science and technology. Raul Fuentes, a project researcher, said they will start work in January 2016. It is expected that the city with this future technology will be completed by 2035.

It must be said that Leeds University is not the first place to use robots for solving automated infrastructure problems. Earlier, Japan also used drones to guide automatic bulldozers in construction work to prepare for the 2020 Olympics Tokyo.