{"id":107009,"date":"2009-12-28T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-tech-ashghal-to-develop-solar-powered-robots-for-regulating-traffic\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T05:48:19","slug":"eco-tech-ashghal-to-develop-solar-powered-robots-for-regulating-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/107009","title":{"rendered":"Eco Tech: Ashghal to develop solar-powered robots for regulating traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/28\/robot_wc7fT_69.jpg\" alt=\"robot\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Traffic regulating robots powered by solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s Public Works Authority (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashghal.gov.qa\/\">Ashghal<\/a>) with support from the Qatar Science Club will soon be developing new robots that will replace the manual methods used in guiding traffic at varies road project sites. The green robots will be powered by solar energy harvested by onboard solar panels.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The solar panels will continuously recharge the robot\u2019s built-in batteries that would enable them to function for 24 hours without interruption. The robots will control traffic at major ongoing road projects in Doha and outskirts. <\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/torley\/2587091353\/sizes\/l\/\">Flickr<\/a> [<em>Under a Creative Commons License<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeninsulaqatar.com\/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&#038;subsection=Qatar+News&#038;month=December2009&#038;file=Local_News2009122825937.xml\">The Peninsula<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Traffic regulating robots powered by solar energy. Qatar\u2019s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) with support from the Qatar Science Club will soon be developing new robots that will replace the manual methods used in guiding traffic at varies road project sites. The green robots will be powered by solar energy harvested by onboard solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}