Hannah Lina Mazzetti recalls the inconvenience of driving an hour from her home in rural Sweden just to buy a gallon of milk. Missing was a local corner store. So the 29-year-old public relations expert helped invent a modern substitute that can potentially drive and park itself.

Moby Mart stores are staffless modules with inventory, payment and security systems built in. Customers can unlock the stores with smartphone apps, shop and then check out — all without a storekeeper. Each of three models represents an early foray into what a growing number of designers are working to build: a future where spaces for retail, play and work will come to you — like autonomous cars, but bigger.

Space10, an Ikea-funded living future lab in Copenhagen that launched in 2015, last year unveiled its Spaces on Wheels program, with designs for seven different potential autonomous spaces. These vehicles range from an Ikea store on wheels to Play on Wheels, which would allow people to use augmented reality (AR) windows to play games that interact with their surroundings. If this sounds unrealistic, consider that in November 2017, Apple was granted a patent for AR displays that allow external objects to be viewed through a movable transparent window.

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