With Its 17 New Robotoilets, NYC is Experimenting With the Radical Idea of Actually Providing Public Bathrooms
THE SO WHAT
Automated public bathrooms are a reminder that ‘smart city’ spend is drifting from dashboards to physical services. For urban-tech builders, the bar is shifting toward tangible, maintained infrastructure that solves daily frictions, not just data collection.
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