Introduction. The rise of AI & Robotics in the City

Abstract

The world is experiencing a wave of extreme urbanization focusing some of the world’s greatest challenges and opportunities onto cities. For millennia, humans have migrated to cities to connect because it promised creativity and mobility. In 1900, when the second industrial revolution of electricity and oil started to unfold, just 200 million people lived in cities, about one eight of the word population at the time. Today, a century later, while we are entering what many experts call a “four...