12 hours ago
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
Out On the Streets, It's Every Food Robot for Itself
The future of human-robot relations is playing out on city streets and college campuses, and it's looking a bit scary—for the robots.
Tasked with delivering late-night pizza and snacks to the couchbound, robots are getting stuck in snow piles or flipped on their backs, and sometimes relying on the kindness of human strangers to get back on track.