Can ugly urban car parks be repurposed as vibrant neighborhood hubs?
A robot the size of a small cooler sits on the sun-soaked fake grass in a segment of parking lot close to Brickell, Miami – the city’s shiny-towered financial district overlooking Biscayne Bay.
Nicknamed “Reefy”, the electric-powered autonomous delivery robot wheels smoothly in front of a series of trailers set up to cook food for companies with names that sound as if they were created by algorithm to cater to stoners (MrBeast Burger and Man vs Fries) and another that serves as a storage unit for an online convenience store called Goodees – slogan: “Late Night Cravings Don’t Need Validation.”
The robot is owned by Reef Technology, Miami’s first “unicorn” – a startup valued at more than $1bn. It’s a pretty high price tag for a three-year-old
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