{"id":1030260,"date":"2026-08-21T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030260"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:10:22","slug":"china-puts-robocops-on-traffic-duty-minus-the-arrest-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/china-puts-robocops-on-traffic-duty-minus-the-arrest-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"China puts robocops on traffic duty, minus the arrest powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not quite the &#8220;RoboCop&#8221; of the 1987 movie: \u200bno gun, no power to arrest and \u200bwheels rather than the Hollywood cyborg&#8217;s mechanical stride. <\/p>\n<p>But at a busy intersection in the \u200beastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, the 1.88-m (6-foot-2-inch) robot can spot a helmetless e-bike rider, issue a polite warning and swing its mechanical arms in sync with traffic lights. <\/p>\n<p>Developed by local technology firm SUPCON Information, the 98-kg (216-pound) T2 robot is part of a pilot \u200caimed at handing \u2060some of \u2060police officers&#8217; most repetitive traffic-control duties to machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not quite the &#8220;RoboCop&#8221; of the 1987 movie: \u200bno gun, no power to arrest and \u200bwheels rather than the Hollywood cyborg&#8217;s mechanical stride. But at a busy intersection in the \u200beastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, the 1.88-m (6-foot-2-inch) robot can spot a helmetless e-bike rider, issue a polite warning and swing its mechanical arms in sync with traffic lights. Developed by local technology firm SUPCON Information, the 98-kg (216-pound) T2 robot is part of a pilot \u200caimed at handing \u2060some of \u2060police officers&#8217; most repetitive traffic-control duties to machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030280,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030260\/revisions\/1030280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}