NAVER 1784, described by Kyungmin at Baemin Robotics Lab as ‘the utopia for indoor delivery robots’ during the interview, demonstrates how humans and robots might co-exist in shared robotised space. NAVER 1784 is the second headquarters of the Korean tech giant Naver, which opened as the world’s first robot-friendly building in 2022. The whole building……
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Encountering Dilly and its human guardian
Gwanggyo and other urban robotic labs allow us to grapple with the ongoing ‘infrastructuralisation of robotically augmented cities’ (While et al., 2021, p. 781), as delivery robots are woven into the urban landscapes and humans and robots cohabit and evolve together. I visited Gwanggyo three times in the summer of 2022 to observe Dilly Drives……