A £13,000 robot has been bought by a council — to paint lines on football fields. The droid uses GPS technology to mark out the two pitches. But the council’s hi-tech approach in Maidstone, Kent, h…
Paul Penny, who spotted the device being used, said: “My thoughts were, ‘£13,000 for public ground where it’s only kids and Sunday
“If it was a football club selling tickets for matches to pay for that sort of technology — OK. But it’s not.”which allows the operator to drop a template of markings over a picture of the field before setting it going.But dad-of-three Paul, 47, said he witnessed council workers with their hands in their pockets watching the robot do its work.
He said: “It’s a kick in the teeth when you see two blokes standing around watching a robot paint lines that they could quite easily paint themselves.Meet Storm Huntley, the star tipped to replace Holly Willoughby on This Morning“I’m not seeing the money being used in a reasonable way.” The council said the robot marked out a field — a job that would normally take at least two hours — in 45 minutes.
It added: “The use of this robot is not to replace the worker but to increase the efficiency and number of duties undertaken by the operative.”
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