CITY OF OXFORD, Ohio — The City of Oxford voted unanimously to authorize the purchase of a robot for sports field painting on Wednesday evening, carrying a $39,595 price tag.

Park Director Chad Smith said the bill would be paid over the course of three years, and the city hoped the cost of paying staff members to hand-paint the city's fields would offset the sticker price of the TinyMobileRobot .

We talked with Smith about the prospects of the small painting robot given the five-figure price tag, and he said the sprayer will pay itself off in time.

"It's a fascinating device," he told us.

The device would allow a single operator to fill it with paint, set the pattern for a specific ball field from a remote screen and the TinyMobileRobot would paint it on its own.

Smith said using

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