Urban robots: Towards smarter and more sustainable cities | UN-HABITAT | AI FOR GOOD WEBINARS

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Published on April 12, 2022 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaOS2CsR_jI

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This AI for Good webinar explores the latest AI-powered robots reshaping urban spaces and city life. As the world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with 68% of the population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, urban growth creates major challenges in terms of congestion, pollution, food and water security, energy access, waste management, or infrastructure maintenance. Cities, being at the center of the technological changes fueled by the fourth industrial revolution such as automation and artificial intelligence, are rapidly deploying a range of technologies to address a wide range of urban challenges.

In this context, autonomous robots are being integrated into the urban landscape to provide smarter and more sustainable, and effective solutions in many areas, such as last-mile goods delivery, garbage collection, window cleaning, utility pipes inspection and repair, mobility, or police and security tasks.

However, technical, safety, trust, ethical, data privacy, and urban planning concerns must be addressed to ensure people-centered, safe, and appropriate application of robots within cities. In addition, cities must have the right capacities to not only govern and manage robots under their control but also those deployed in public areas by other entities.

Speakers: 🎙
Katja Schäfer, Smart Cities Flagship Programme Lead, UN-Habitat
Melissa Permezel, Innovation Unit Coordinator, UN-Habitat
Fábio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Senseable City Lab
Cristina Bueti, Counsellor, ‪@itutelecommunication‬
Junyoung Choi, Director of the Center for Data Science, Seoul Institute of Technology
Seunghoon Kim, Associate Research Fellow in the National Infrastructure Research Division, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
Mercedes Soria, EVP and Chief Intelligence Officer, Knightscope
Yasmine Fage, COO and Co-Founder, Goggo Network

Moderator: 🎙
Alice Charles, Project Lead for Cities, Infrastructure and Urban Services, ‪@wef‬

Shownotes: ⏱
00:00 Intro
01:55 Panelist intro
15:00 Robotic underworlds
19:04 Roboat
26:28 Urban design for autonomous delivery robots
41:35 Goggo robotics
48:56 Knightscope urban robots
1:06:44 Q&A


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