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Robots · September 2025

A Delivery Robot Collided With A Man With Cerebral Palsy. The Aftermath Is Getting Ugly

A Serve Robotics bot in West Hollywood kept swerving into a disability advocate's mobility scooter and then full-stopped as its "fail-safe state," causing him to ram it, and Serve's postmortem found the pedestrian-prediction safety system had achieved the remarkable feat of doing exactly the opposite of its job.

Source: Disability Scoop

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