Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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
The Flow of Urban Life is a podcast produced by KONE. Subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts and follow KONE on Facebook (facebook.com/konecorporation/) , Twitter (twitter.com/KONECorporation) or LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/kone/) .
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
The Flow of Urban Life is a podcast produced by KONE. Subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts and follow KONE on Facebook (facebook.com/konecorporation/) , Twitter (twitter.com/KONECorporation) or LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/kone/) .










