Speaker bio:
Bern Grush is the Executive Director of the Urban Robotics Foundation and global project lead for the draft technical standard ISO DTS-4448 (Public-area Mobile Robots and automated pathway devices) which will be published in stages starting in 2024.
Since 2002, Bern has been involved with transportation-related innovation and regulatory research for road pricing, parking management, automated vehicles, and now the robots that move on our sidewalks and in public spaces.
Before that, he co-founded PCI Geomatics to develop AI for image analysis systems for earth-imaging satellites.
He has degrees in Human Factors Psychology from the University of Toronto and Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Keynote name:
How will e-bikes and robots co-exist?
Keynote description:
E-commerce has been climbing aggressively for well over a decade. Warehousing and logistics industries have grown to keep up. E-bikes speed up couriers, increase delivery count, and ease automotive congestion. These devices create issues for some cities mostly due to speed differences on sidewalks and bike lanes. Now, we propose to add delivery robots to the mix. How will that work? While this will not be easy, it is possible to mix an increasing number of small motorized devices such as e-bikes and public area mobile robots, but it cannot be done without a new form of traffic orchestration.
