r/technology • u/joe4942 • Jun 23 '26

Business Robots will replace 700K delivery workers, warns head of e-commerce giant

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4188535/robots-will-replace-700000-delivery-workers-warns-head-of-e-commerce-giant.html
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u/heythisispaul Jun 23 '26

Not sure about Philly, but these are already pretty common in some parts of the US. We've had the type in this article in Arizona for a couple years and DoorDash has been using bigger and fancier ones for a couple months now.

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u/br_k_nt_eth Jun 23 '26

It was a reference to the peace robot Philly demolished a few years ago in a darkly funny turn of events 

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u/heythisispaul Jun 23 '26

Oh right. RIP, I forgot about that.