Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats delivery robot
johnnyApplePRNG · hn · 2026-10-18
A retired University of Pennsylvania professor was arrested in Philadelphia for physically blocking an Uber Eats sidewalk delivery robot, in what she described as a protest against the robots. The incident, reported by PhillyVoice, highlights growing resident friction with delivery robots on city sidewalks; details of the confrontation and police response are in the original report.
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