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From Flying Traffic Cones to Roadside Robots: Rethinking How We Protect Road Workers

Posted by Anthony Davis

|November 05, 2026

From Flying Traffic Cones to Roadside Robots: Rethinking How We Protect Road Workers

A team of students in China has designed a traffic cone that can fly to a roadworks site, land in position and transform itself into a conventional-looking safety marker....

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