researchers at the university of Leeds are working on developing a fleet of maintenance robots and drones that can seek out broken infrastructure and repair it . The project has been given £ 4.2 m investment as part of a £ 21 ##m Engineering Grand funding scheme . The ambitious project paves the way for ' self - sustaining ' cities , where autonomous drones would fix broken lights , pot holes or crack cracks and send a team of maintenance robots to fix any problems .
Researchers at the University of Leeds are working on developing a fleet of maintenance robots and drones that can seek out broken infrastructure and repair it. The project has been given £4.2m investment as part of a £21m Engineering Grand Challenges scheme. The ambitious project paves the way for 'self-healing' cities, where autonomous drones would identify broken lights, pot holes or building cracks and send a team of maintenance robots to fix any problems.