The world's first city for robots | Green Futures Magazine

The world's first city for robots | Green Futures Magazine via @forum4thefuture

A technology firm is building a metropolis in the New Mexico desert, replete with schools, parks and an airport, to test out future technologies in the absence of people. A science project of unprecedented scale begins this month in the New Mexico desert, as a technology firm breaks ground for a model metropolis. Washington-based Pegasus Global Holdings will build a town replete with schools, parks and an airport. But the intended residents are not people, but robots. Scheduled to open in 2015, the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, or CITE , will be built across 20 square miles to the scale of a mid-sized American city. With housing and infrastructure to accommodate 35,000 people, the $1 billion plan features both old and new elements of urban and suburban design, from LEED-certified office buildings to 1980s-era ‘McMansions’. The uninhabited city will serve a...

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