Grant Award View - GA151786

The Australia-Japan Public Forum on Urban Robots and the Future City is a public gathering at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo. The main aim of the Forum is to discuss the deployment of urban robots in public spaces. This forum invites Australian and Japanese scholars to exchange current smart technologies developed in Australia and Japan with a large public audience.The Forum will cover the presentations by experts on smart cities and use cases of urban robots to assist and interact with people in public spaces (e.g. small autonomous vehicles, cleaning robots). Then, an exchange with the public on successful adoption of such new technology will be held. Finally, the Forum attempts to define key orientation for research and summarize public needs considering cultural differences. The project aims also to establish a long-term collaboration among Australian and Japanese researchers in innovation and technology.