Indore, the cleanest city in India, has achieved another achievement. According to reports, this city in Madhya Pradesh is the first in India where robots are being deployed experimentally to manage the city's chaotic and ever-growing traffic.
In order to control the chaotic traffic in the area, the traffic police have put a metal robot at a busy MR-9 crossroads for the first time in collaboration with a private engineering college in the city.
In the two days since it was installed, this robot, which was designed and created by two engineering college professors from the city, Prof. Rahul Tiwari and Aniruddh Sharma, has been quite successful in managing traffic in this neighbourhood, which is typically jam-packed and blocked in the absence of traffic signals and traffic cops, according to Indore range DIG Harinarayanchari Mishra.
Riders in passing cars were shocked to find a life-size metallic robot with a sensor and number system directing traffic in the area with enormous arms in a manner akin to a traffic cop. According to the DIG, since this robot was installed, traffic flow in the area has been greatly streamlined, with people happily obeying its green and red light signals.
With the installation of this robot, according to Mishra, Indore has become the first city in the nation to manage traffic with a robot. He claimed that in Dubai, where robots will be put in place in November of this year, work on the installation of robots to manage traffic had continued on a war footing.
The employment of robotic technology to manage traffic, however, has been pioneered by Indore. He added that efforts are also being made to outfit this robot with an announcement system and cameras so that it can award tickets to traffic violators after it is installed at the MR-9 junction and after it proves successful there.
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