The Sniffer

Automation Special: Smart City Bots and Embarrassed Shopping

Episode Summary

Two takes on contemporary automation: robots for delivery in the smart city; why shoppers prefer automated checkout (or robotic humans)

Episode Notes

Hope your summer is going well! This time, Cathi looks at one potential future scenario, described in this Fast Company article, for the use of sidewalk robots in smart cities to deliver goods.

Nora refers to this UBC business school study on one reason people prefer automated checkout: embarrassing purchases.