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From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved

Posted by Anthony Davis

|September 19, 2026

From Toilet Paper to Robots - How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved

In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in Littleton, Colorado, were repairing crack...

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