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: urban robots
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……