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Delivery robots continue to be a nuisance wherever they roam.
As a gaggle of around a half dozen emergency responders attended to a man who seemed to be having some sort of mental health crisis, two of the sidewalk-crawling machinescame face to face with each other, unsure whether to proceed.
“There’s a standoff. Look at this,” said a man who filmed a video of the incident, which took place near the Cherokee Plaza in Hollywood. (Warning: it’s an uncomfortable listen.)
The robots, which appear to be operated by Serve Robotics, wander uncomfortably close to the cluster of cops, firemen, and paramedics, and instead of driving by — or taking an alternate route in the first place — stop in place like awkward rubberneckers. Half a minute passes before one of the robots decides to back out, but the other remains less than a foot away from the action.
“If I went that close, I’m getting arrested,” the man remarked. “If I went right there where that robot is, I am one hundred percent getting arrested.”
“They can go over there, and I can’t!”
The robot doesn’t drive off until the man under distress is wheeled away in a stretcher, some three minutes later. It’s unclear why the bot didn’t try to remove itself from the scene.
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