Robot in Streets – level 1

10-04-2020 07:00

Tunis is the capital city of Tunisia. The police in Tunis use a special robot. The robot moves around the city. The police control the robot from another place. The coronavirus is in Tunisia. More than 500 people are ill. They must stay at home.

The robot stops people who are outside. The robot can speak. It asks people to show their ID. People must say why they are outside. The robot checks people’s temperature. It has a special camera and an alarm system.

A Tunisian company builds the robot. The company sells the robot to foreign countries. It costs more than $100,000. Companies use it to keep people safe.

Difficult words: robot (a machine that sometimes looks like a human, and it can do difficult tasks), ID (a card or document with a photograph and information about a person), alarm (a device that makes a loud sound when there is danger).

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