This workshop is sponsored by URF member: ARIBO. Led by Bern Grush, the workshop is based on our Discovery Guide to PMRs: Opportunities and Challenges with Public-area Mobile Robots. 

Are you looking at how new technologies like robots might be used in your facility/ies or in public spaces to improve operations, address labour shortages and enhance employee or customer satisfaction? Have you been asked to report back to your executive leaders on how to prepare for deploying mobility innovations for autonomously transporting people or goods? Or how you might integrate robotics and AI in your maintenance or security operations?

Learning Objectives:

- Examine the wide variety of Use Cases for public-area mobile robots (PMRs)

- Review the Opportunities and Challenges, Barriers and Risks associated with deployment

- Understand the 6 Governance Deployment Pillars and 5 Maturity Stages for adopting this new technology

- Develop an action plan to start addressing the key challenges for your organization - ranging from insurance to training to vendor selection

Who should attend: municipal/government leaders, city council members, facility operations executives (facilities serving the public, such as airports, hospitals, parks, shopping malls, universities), urban planners, traffic planners, logistics operators providing last-mile services, maintenance operators contracted to facilities, security operators intending to add security robots to their operations, airport or hospitals adding robots to move goods or passengers, mobility researchers.