New digital technologies and systems are being extensively applied in urban contexts.
These technologies and systems include algorithms, robotics, drones, Autonomous Vehicles …

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a
methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and …

We are in the midst of a global turn to the drone. In the context of the 'unmanning'of
contemporary life, this article explores urban drone futures as they are speculated through …

Robots are an increasing presence in our public spaces. Accordingly, in this paper, we
make an argument for the importance of understanding how they produce spatiality by …

Robots are becoming increasingly common in urban social environments and this is likely to
cause emotional reactions among people. Utilizing theoretical frameworks of social identity …

Geographers have become increasingly preoccupied with the problematic of the future in
recent decades, but it would be misleading and premature to think of this emerging, diffuse …

The increasing deployment of robots in urban spaces calls for design strategies to ensure
their adaptation and to mitigate potential disruptions to complex urban contexts. Our …

Autonomous urban robots were introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), UK, in 2018 to automate
on-demand grocery delivery. Two years later the COVID-19 pandemic rendered routine …

In 2018" Starship" grocery delivery robots were first introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), a new
town in England, to automate a task that is difficult to perform in a cost-effective manner by …

In this article, we develop a framework for robotic autonomy as contingent. We do so with an
account of a series of online research workshops that asked people to design and test robot …