Terrible Traffic? Call In the 7-Foot-Tall RoboCops

One—whom its builders call Thamuk—sustained injuries to its legs and chest when a car rammed into his concrete pedestal. The bespectacled robot was awaiting repairs at the lab of his creator, Thérèse Izay-Kirongozi. Thamuk's torso had been disconnected from his lower extremities and was now ...