Milton Keynes has been Starship Technologies' longest-running deployment of pavement delivery robots: they have operated here since April 2018, and by 2021 the company said the local fleet of around 200 was its largest anywhere in the world. It is also where the argument caught up with the technology — in 2026 a national pedestrian charity began campaigning against pavement robots, while the UK still had no specific law governing them.

All 2 projects in Milton Keynes

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• 🇫🇮 Helsinki: Sohjoa / Sohjoa Baltic Autonomous Minibus Pilots Contrast: an autonomous pilot that ended, against a robot service that became lasting commercial delivery.
• 🇸🇪 Stockholm: Autopiloten: Nobina's Driverless Bus Pilot, Kista to Barkarbystaden Contrast on longevity: ran five years as a real transit line, then was withdrawn for weak demand.
• 🇰🇷 Busan: Osiria Autonomous Bus and the Night BRT Line Parallel: the rare pilot-to-priced-service conversion, the same transition Starship made commercially.
• 🇸🇬 Singapore: Punggol Autonomous Shuttle Service Contrast on supervision: a safety driver on board versus Milton Keynes's remote-assistant model.

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• 🇺🇸 Columbus: Smart Columbus Operating System (Open Data Platform) Both grant-built data platforms outlived their funding on paper only — Columbus's went offline, MK's froze with its catalogue pages erroring.
• 🇬🇧 Manchester: CityVerve IoT Smart City Demonstrator Same UK funded cohort, different decay: CityVerve's domain was sold on, MK's portal still answers but has had no new dataset since 2022.
• 🇬🇧 Bristol: Bristol Is Open — Programmable City Network Testbed Two survivors of the same cohort that only look alive: a dormant company in Bristol, a frozen catalogue in Milton Keynes.

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