This seems like a gigantic step back, in terms of safety and even appearance (note the animated faces!), from this company's robots, which are constantly remotely monitored by humans and are notorious for freaking out and taking evasive action when a human appears in front of them. And that company launched in the next city over, Berkeley. What's the deal? I'm not on Twitter; if you are, could you ask that question in the thread and maybe tag "kiwicampus"? I don't think we're ready for fully autonomous delivery bots yet; look at the anti-robot hostility in that thread.
Edited to change the Twitter handle to quotes; DW have sensibly made the "at" symbol into a shorthand way of linking to a DW account. And also to link this tweet, which shows one at a kerb cut both backing out of the cut when it has to wait, and avoiding a pedestrian crossing in the other direction by backing up rather than freezing. Almost safe for a wheelchair user to encounter, looks like to me???
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Edited to change the Twitter handle to quotes; DW have sensibly made the "at" symbol into a shorthand way of linking to a DW account. And also to link this tweet, which shows one at a kerb cut both backing out of the cut when it has to wait, and avoiding a pedestrian crossing in the other direction by backing up rather than freezing. Almost safe for a wheelchair user to encounter, looks like to me???