{"id":77875,"date":"2018-04-17T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/what-will-the-automated-city-of-the-future-look-like"},"modified":"2018-04-17T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:22:25","slug":"what-will-the-automated-city-of-the-future-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/what-will-the-automated-city-of-the-future-look-like","title":{"rendered":"What Will the Automated City of the Future Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLaDE4OsjQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many large cities (Seoul, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Singapore, Dubai, London, San Francisco) serve as test beds for autonomous vehicle trials in a competitive race to develop \u201cself-driving\u201d cars. Automated ports and warehouses are also increasingly automated and robotized. Testing of delivery robots and drones is gathering pace beyond the warehouse gates. Automated control systems are monitoring, regulating and optimizing traffic flows. Automated vertical farms are innovating production of food in \u201cnon-agricultural\u201d urban areas around the world. New mobile health technologies carry promise of healthcare \u201cbeyond the hospital.\u201d Social robots in many guises \u2013 from police officers to restaurant waiters \u2013 are appearing in urban public and commercial spaces.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tokyo, Singapore and Dubai are becoming prototype \u2018robot cities,\u2019 as governments start to see automation as the key to urban living.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/what-will-automated-city-future-look-like-180968760\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/what-will-automate...180968760\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many large cities (Seoul, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Singapore, Dubai, London, San Francisco) serve as test beds for autonomous vehicle trials in a competitive race to develop \u201cself-driving\u201d cars. Automated ports and warehouses are also increasingly automated and robotized. Testing of delivery robots and drones is gathering pace beyond the warehouse gates. Automated control systems are monitoring, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,1506,1495,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-food","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}