{"id":181049,"date":"2023-10-25T02:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181049"},"modified":"2023-10-25T02:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:39:34","slug":"fury-as-council-buys-13000-gps-robot-to-paint-football-pitch-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/fury-as-council-buys-13000-gps-robot-to-paint-football-pitch-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as council buys \u00a313,000 GPS robot to paint football pitch lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Locals angered by council&#8217;s purchase of \u00a313,000 GPS robot to paint football pitch lines: Witness says &#8216;two blokes stood around&#8217; while bot did job easily done by single worker<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Locals slammed the council&#8217;s decision to buy the robot as a &#8216;kick in the teeth&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furious taxpayers have blasted a local council for splurging \u00a313,000 on a hi-tech droid to paint lines on football pitchs, leaving council workers &#8216;standing around watching a robot&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The advanced gadget uses GPS technology to mark out the lines of two football pitches in under an hour, but residents in Maidstone, Kent, are not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Locals have slammed the council&#8217;s decision to shell out thousands of pounds on the robot as a &#8216;kick in the teeth&#8217;, after Maidstone Council\u00a0increased the burden on households by the maximum three per cent earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Locals says that the money could have been spent on more urgent needs and infrastructure projects that residents say they desperately need.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Father-of-three Paul Penny, 47, said he saw council workers standing around, with their hands in their pockets, as they watching the robot working.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=X-pONqEEcNQ%3Frel%3D0%26start%3D24<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/01\/76963913-12668855-image-a-138_1698194978335.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Danish company, Tiny Mobile Robots, who are behind the droid says that the droid line marker has been used to mark out 1.6 million fields around the world<\/p>\n<p>He told The Sun: &#8216;My thoughts were, &#8216;\u00a313,000 for public ground where it&#8217;s only kids and Sunday football played&#8230;are you kidding me?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If it was a football club selling tickets for matches to pay for that sort of technology \u2014 OK. But it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8216;It&#8217;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&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Penny said that residents were frustrated in the council&#8217;s failure to invest in its infrastructure, while increasing its demand for council tax.<\/p>\n<p>The borough also collects money for Kent County Council which hiked up its demand by the maximum 4.99 per cent earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Penny said that he was not seeing money being spent in a reasonable way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/01\/76963915-12668855-image-a-139_1698194983879.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maidstone Council insists that the gadget is a time-saver for staff, allowing for a more efficient use of time other tasks<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/01\/76963945-12668855-image-a-140_1698195034165.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The local authority told The Sun that the robot was capable of marking out a field in 45 minutes &#8211; cutting it down from the usual two hours it would take a human being<\/p>\n<p>Danish company, Tiny Mobile Robots, who are behind the droid says that it has been used to mark out 1.6 million fields around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The droid is controlled through an app, with over 200 sports templates that can then be dragged onto your desired location on Google maps, before hitting start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maidstone Council insists that the gadget is a time-saver for staff, allowing for a more efficient use of time other tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The local authority told The Sun that the robot was capable of marking out a field in 45 minutes &#8211; cutting it down from the usual two hours it would take a human being using a traditional line marking machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It added the use of this robot was not intended to replace the worker but to increase efficiency, as well as the number of duties they could carry out.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12668855\/Locals-angered-councils-purchase-13-000-GPS-robot-paint-football-pitch-lines-Witness-says-two-blokes-stood-bot-did-job-easily-single-worker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locals angered by council&#8217;s purchase of \u00a313,000 GPS robot to paint football pitch lines: Witness says &#8216;two blokes stood around&#8217; 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