Wijkbot for Public Space

On 6 & 7 June, the PublicSpaces conference took place in Amsterdam. Wijkbot was invited to run a workshop making the role of robots in the city tangible, with special attention to public values.

We opened with a short presentation about the project background and offered scenarios showing ways the Wijkbot can fulfil a social and public role reflecting the values of residents.

Inspired by Asimov's three laws of robotics, we formulated three rules as inspiration for human-respecting robots.

The two teams built on this with their own interpretation: robots that combine social functions.