If one of the hash marks isn’t straight on Bill Hayes Field at Bowman Gray Stadium, you can blame the robot.

Thanks to purchasing a robot from a company called Tiny Mobile Robots , Winston-Salem State will have sharp lines for its 100-yard field this season.

Jordan Leak, who helps April Reid with all facilities at WSSU, was sitting in a golf cart on Thursday afternoon watching the robot do all the work.

“It takes about three hours,” said Leak, who also helps at WSSU in marketing and does most of the graphics for the entire university. “It stops when it needs more paint, so that’s the only break it takes.”

Leak said this is the first year Bowman Gray Stadium’s lines have been done by a robot. In past years, Melvin Fair, who is in the Big House Gaines Hall of Fame, has handled the lini

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