From city cleaning to supermarket deliveries, to medical professionals and other frontline workers – services play a key role in making our cities more pleasant, more productive and healthier places to be. With fast-paced urbanization, some people are turning to technology to help meet the growing demand. Could robots help? Sam Hughes talks to three guest speakers to find out:

• Oliver Stahl, CEO at Robotise, a Germany-based start-up on a mission to introduce service robots into people's everyday lives
• Kaisa Spilling, Development Manager at Forum Virium, the City of Helsinki’s innovation company
• Crystal Hu, Marketing Manager at Gaussian Robotics 

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