From self-driving taxis to autonomous delivery drones the size of a lorry, we take a closer look at how experimentation in US cities, across Africa and now in the UK foreshadows the stealthy rise of robots across multiple domains.
Go straight to 37:33 for this discussion.
First in radar, they cover:
- Leaflet wars in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Greater Manchester
- How space and stigma play out in the Epstein and UK grooming scandals
- What the UK Royal Family have to do with cities
- Urban foundations & fallouts from the death of Mexican drug lord, El Mencho
- The promise of Spain's approach to regularising undocumented migrants
- How to better assess the vulnerabilities of regions and cities to the green transition
Guests:
Aidan While researches environmental and climate policy, urban technology and future cities, and the politics of planning in the UK and internationally. This podcast draws on his ESRC project on Robotics as Urban Automation. He has written on sidewalk delivery robots, ecologies of automation, and regulating urban robotics.