Delivery robots are under attack
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Delivery robots are under attack

B1IntermediateNovember 9, 202610 min
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From sidewalk kicks to full-on physical blockades, people are harassing delivery robots. A professor was reportedly arrested for attacking one. Plus, a dozen delivery robots jammed a Chicago sidewalk, and a DoorDash driver reportedly faked deliveries with AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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History is full of technologically stronger societies, conquering, exploiting, and enslaving people with less advanced weaponry. We really haven't changed. That same destructive behavior is being played out as food delivery robots increase.

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Think I'm taking it a bit too far? Hold on, I'll change your mind. In all of history, has there ever been a case where a more advanced culture discovered a lesser advanced one, the weaker hasn't suffered?

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Here at home, consider the little food delivery robots. As they roll along the sidewalks, they're increasingly harassed and damaged. Two weeks ago, a 78-year-old University of Pennsylvania professor was arrested for attacking an Uber Eats delivery robot.

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