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M

ost readers are no stranger to road construction: the reduced lanes, traffic jams, and orange-vested workers that become all too common during certain times of the year.

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imagine the same scene without the orange-vested workers—a fully automated road construction project where drones, machines, AI and satellites combine to remove the need for human labor in repaving roadways

. Robots Work the Roads in China

While it may sound like science fiction, this unmanned roadwork scenario is a reality in China, where a humanless crew of machines successfully repaved nearly 160km of roadway on a major Chinese highway

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“At the core

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