
A Global Blueprint for Future Cities.
What is the Urban Lab?
The Urban Lab IS the future city.
The Urban Lab transforms Expo City into a live, full-scale testbed—not a controlled zone, but the entire city. This is where we experiment with real systems, real governance, and real citizens. We’re not just testing technologies—we’re testing how a city works to create a model for 21st Century future cities.
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Yango
Yango’s autonomous delivery robots are designed to revolutionize last-mile logistics with smart, efficient, and sustainable solutions. By testing in the Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai, Yango can evaluate real-world performance in a city-wide testbed, optimizing their technology for seamless urban integration.
KiwiBot
KiwiBot is pioneering robotic delivery with a focus on accessibility, efficiency, and sustainability in urban spaces. Testing at the Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai allows KiwiBot to refine its technology in a living city, ensuring it meets the real-world needs of future-ready communities.
Clean Air Enterprise
Clean Air Enterprise is advancing indoor air filtration technology to create healthier, more sustainable built environments. Through testing at the Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai, they can validate their solutions in real-world indoor spaces, optimizing performance for future-ready cities.
Sumitomo Corp
Sumitomo Corporation’s Miracool is a cutting-edge reflective cooling paint designed to lower temperatures and reduce energy consumption for more sustainable urban environments. By testing in the Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai, Sumitomo can assess its real-world impact in a city-wide testbed.
Blog Post: 22 May 2025, Dr Amy Hochadel
Cities That Refuse to Fail
The Urban Lab’s Blueprint for Future Cities
A practical implementation series for 21st-century urban leaders
This series is The Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai’s blueprint for the cities of the future. Built from years of hands-on work across global cities — and now being tested at full scale in Expo City — it offers a proven operating model, not just a vision.
It builds on the foundation we laid in The Intuitive City — where we explored what it means for a city to sense, respond, and adapt in real time. That work challenged the way we think about infrastructure, data, and public systems. It asked: what if cities didn’t just serve people — but understood them?
Who we are?
Our team is dedicated and driven to elevate the city of the future with a human-centric mindset.
The Urban Lab team comes from diverse backgrounds, but we share one goal: making cities more liveable, inclusive, and future-ready. We’re not just tech experts—we’re urbanists, designers, policymakers, and problem-solvers committed to putting people at the heart of innovation.

“The Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai is a living testbed where cities and companies worldwide collaborate to scale new technologies, create markets, and drive a city-led vision for a new global innovation economy.”
— Dr. Amy Hochadel, Vice President, Urban Lab at Expo City Dubai
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