While Chicago residents deal with the urgent threat of federal immigration agents rampaging through their neighborhoods, hundreds of unwanted side characters have managed to worm their way in seemingly overnight.
Over the past few months, swarms of delivery robots have taken over the city’s sidewalks, prompting locals to call for them to be shut them down. The delivery robots are part of a pilot program engineered by two companies: Coco, operating pink bots sporting obnoxious flag poles, and Serve, whose green and white bots sports two LED eyes.
As first reported by CBS, over 700 residents from 35 Chicago-area zip codes have signed a petition demanding that the city halt the rollout. Called Sidewalks are for People, the campaign demands city officials pause the pilots until they release data from studies on safety and accessibility, as well as the services’ impact on jobs…