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Viggy Ganapathy: If R2-D2 Delivered Pizza

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English - August 29, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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Famed urbanist Jane Jacobs once compared the city sidewalk to a ballet, calling it a "complex order...always replete with new improvisations." Soon, this ballet will feature a new dancer: robots.

Viggy Ganapathy is the head of government relations at Serve Robotics, a company designing small, four-wheeled robots that deliver food from local restaurants right to people's homes.