This post is part of the PhD thesis ‘The Smart City in Motion’. 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,……
Tag: infrastructure
Encountering Dilly and its human guardian
Part of this post is published in City: ‘Friction-free cities and the rise of contactless and robotised delivery infrastructure’. 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……
Introduction: The Smart City in Motion
The colossal buildings lining the boulevard in Hongdae light up the night sky with neon. But it’s not just the sky that shines. Every street, every alleyway, flashes and bounces with moving lights from all kinds of vehicles. Motorbikes, bicycles, small-wheeled electric bicycles, electric scooters, and electric unicycles bustle around. Each carries a delivery box……
Prelude: Perfectly coordinated
Urban landscape is ever-changing. Living in a city might mean encountering something new, or more specifically, moving with something new. Intersecting movements are what makes a city a living organism. Countless people and various forms of transport move in different directions at different paces. A few years ago, new things joined these urban movements – riders……