Estonian robots headed for US must master crosswalks


A six-wheeled robot by Starship Technologies makes its way to deliver food from restaurant in Tallinn, Estonia on February 16, 2017. The knee-high, black-and-white robot carefully avoids pedestrians, stops obediently at the red traffic light of a large road junction. / AFP PHOTO / Raigo Pajula / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Anne KAURANEN

TALLINN: A knee-high, black-and-white buggy rolls down a snowy pavement in Estonia’s capital Tallinn and, carefully avoiding pedestrians, stops obediently at the red traffic light of a large road junction. 

The six-wheeled robot, on its way to deliver lunch to a client, knows to cross only when the pedestrian light is green, but, armless, it cannot press the traffic light button. 

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