KAUST Smart and Community Life are excited to invite community members to experience and shape the future of package and food deliveries through multiple autonomous delivery pilots. These pilots are being carried out jointly between KAUST Smart and The National Digital Transformation Unit (NDU) to exchange knowledge and expertise in digital transformation and emerging technologies.
Together, KAUST Smart, NDU, Community Life, and various industry and technology partners have come together to launch and test autonomous delivery by running two pilots:
- Self-driving vehicle for package delivery
- Drones for food delivery
KAUST as a Living Lab
KAUST is the perfect place to test smart city concepts with speed and in a real-life yet controlled environment, before they are launched to the world. Because of this unique setup, our work will have impact far beyond our walls.
KAUST Smart is the enabler of KAUST’s user-centric experience, applying technologies with the aim of delivering easy and intuitive experiences. We combine deep intellectual curiosity with the unique opportunity our standalone city-campus affords us to encourage everyone who lives at, visits or works with KAUST to imagine, play, explore, experiment and create together.
The KAUST Community is an integral part of this testbed for innovation.
Partnership between KAUST Smart and NDU
KAUST and NDU recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at conducting joint projects in digital transformation that contribute to realizing Vision 2030 and enable digital adoption it in the Kingdom.
NDU regards this collaboration with KAUST as strategic for achieving its vision, especially since KAUST provides a unique environment as a living lab that allows advanced technologies and concepts to be tested before launching it in other cities and locations.
See: Saudi university, digital transformations unit sign deal to activate cutting-edge tech in digital economy – August, 2021
What’s Next
We will continue to engage with the community and listen to your needs through various workshops and design thinking sessions. In the following weeks, we will announce more information regarding these pilots and opportunities to shape the future of delivery. Stay tuned!
