Date Published: January 12, 2025
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We are pleased to publish our year-end edition of URF's e-newsletter - with hotlinks to our videos, events and publications - along with a special gift for your holiday reading - a FREE download of URF's 2024 Discovery Guide to PMRs!
URF is delighted to announce that Francisco Javier Martin Romo, global administrator for the Hospitality Robotics Group on LinkedIn, is now URFs member liaison for Europe and Middle East. Francisco is based in Italy; he will be hosting a webinar on March 20th. Please reach out to Francisco if you have any questions about membership or PMRs: [francisco@urbanroboticsfoundation.org]
We are thankful for the support of our members and partners! If you know someone who might be ready to join URF, please share our new membership flyer with them and/or email [leestj@urbanroboticsfoundation.org] for questions about sponsorship, membership and/or booking a workshop.
If you are a smart city planner, accessibility advocate, mobility innovator or technology designer interested in the social acceptance of robots, this session will offer new perspectives on how to build a world where robots and humans seamlessly live together, making new tech 'normal' in communities and how you get there.
This session is sponsored by CITM: Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility. We invite you to register today and join the conversation on Human-Robot Interactions! 29 January 2025 - 11am ET
For the full December e-newsletter, click here.
Public-area Mobile RobotsGrowing in popularity and visibility |
This enews update provides you with a summary of some of the recent events in our ecosystem and a selection of upcoming events in which you might want to participate.
Oct 2: "PMRs in Airports & other public spaces... improving accessibility, helping clean, expediting delivery & more! View the recording and read our blog
Oct 28-29 in Fredericton, NB, Intelligent Community Forum launched the ICF Institute Canada (Atlantic). URF's Executive Director, Bern Grush, attended and spoke on a keynote panel. Here is a short summary of Bern's talk (blog post).
PMR Ecosystem News Highlights
On September 15th, the City of Markham (north or Toronto, Ontario, Canada) announced a mobility pilot project in the OVIN Demonstration Zone ...
Serve Robotics and Wing have partnered to create a new, eco-friendly delivery system combining sidewalk robots and drones ... Watch this YouTube video link featuring Serve CEO, Ali Kashani discussing their 3rd generation PMR and their new drone pilot project with Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEM9bICT_c0 ...
On October 15th, Starship Technologies announced their first launch with Bolt, integrating robot delivery into the Bolt Food app. It’s a landmark collaboration between two Estonian companies seeking to future-proof last-mile delivery and shape urban mobility across Europe... |
For the full November enewsletter, click here.
Robot Rights
What rights, if any, should a robot have? Check out this blog post for Bern's provocative exploration of 'rights' for Public-area Mobile Robots.
This enews update provides you with a summary of some of the upcoming events in our ecosystem:
Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility sponsors "PMRs in Airports & other public spaces... improving accessibility, helping clean, expediting delivery & more! Register for our webinar (Oct 2@11am ET)
Map Maintenance for PMRs (Member meeting - Oct 4 @ 2pm ET)
Catch the Wave - Calgary Tech Centre Launch (Oct 21-29)
PMR to Human Communications (Member meeting - Oct 21 @2pm ET)
Intelligent Community Forum launches first Canadian ICF Institute (Oct 28-29: Fredericton, NB)
IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility
URF's Executive Director, Bern Grush, participated in the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility on September 16-18, 2024.
He was on the panel: Opportunities and Challenges of Self-driving Technology and delivered a presentation as part of the Cybersecurity and Data Governance in Mobility technical session: "A Regulatory Roadmap for Public-Area Mobile Robots".
New Sponsor for Regulatory Guide to PMRs
We are delighted to announce that Serve Robotics has stepped up as a financial sponsor for the Regulatory Roadmap. Thank you so much Ali and Viggy for your support! Click this link for a 2-page Preview of the guide.
For the complete October 24 e-newsletter, click here.
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