Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia confrontation

We've all seen these delivery robots traipsing through Center City delivering food during the lunch hour and yesterday it turned into a robo rumble between a bot and a woman right here who allegedly refused to let it pass. The standoff ended with Carolyn Marvin in handcuffs. And then in this now viral video, it's fueling debate about artificial intelligence's takeover. I know that they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers. And so I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward. So Marvin says she was exercising her First Amendment right to protest the robots. Philadelphia police were called to the 1200 block of Filbert Street where they found Marvin blocking the Uber robots path. and witnesses say it caused a scene outside Reading Terminal and then backed up traffic. Police say after ignoring multiple commands to move officers arrested and then charged her with disorderly conduct. Marvin says she does this anytime she sees the delivery robots, including a September encounter that went viral on TikTok along Broad Street. I actually thought the robot hit her. So my original question was, are you okay? Did the robot hit you? And she said, no, I have to stop this. They're taking over the world. Do you plan to do this again? I do. Why not? I think it's my first and only right to publicly demonstrate on the public sidewalk my protest against delivery robots. So Marvin says that she hopes this now viral encounter will help people think twice about using the service, but she's also hoping that it opens up a dialogue about the use of these robots and AI. We've also reached out to Uber for a comment and have not heard back, but it has certainly sparked an open dialogue. Sarah? It has, for sure. Christy, thank you.