Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“A century ago, the arrival of the automobile threw cities out of balance,” Lina Moe and Clinton J. Andrews from Rutgers University write. Today, urban centers are being disrupted by another new technology: urban robots. Read: issues.org/urban-robots... 110
Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As bots are increasingly deployed, policymakers need to be able to quickly identify problematic governance gaps and relevant policy levers. “Our three-question diagnostic offers a starting point for policymakers to identify the tools they have and the ones that are missing,” Moe and Andrews write.issues.orgMake Room for RobotsAs robots become more common in urban spaces, policymakers can use a diagnostic to find existing and create new tools for governance. 001