Hertfordshire County Council’s highways department is using a robot and AI to wage war on potholes. The autonomous machine, developed by tech company Robotiz3d and academics at the University of Liverpool in partnership with the authority’s engineers, is set to pass its first test outside of a lab environment. The collaborators used state-of-the-art imaging technology to develop the first Autonomous Road Repair System (ARRES). The robot, officially called ARRES PREVENT, identifies and characterises cracks and potholes in the road using Artificial Intelligence (AI). It then automatically fills …