In Vietnam, crossing the road can feel like a life or death experience.

Busy urban thoroughfares are choked with scooters and other vehicles, which rarely stop for pedestrians, as seen in many YouTube videos.

A group of university students has deployed a humanoid robot to help people get from one side of the road to another.

The researchers from Duy Tan University in central Vietnam installed the humanoid on a wheeled platform and have experimented with it at zebra crossings in Da Nang, according to Vietnamese news media reports.

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