Autonomous delivery robots at center of bomb scare ‘prank’

Photo caption: A Starship Technologies robot on a delivery run. Customers place an order via an app and the robot delivers it inside a secure compartment. Photo credit: Starship Technologies. Article by Trevor Mogg. Digital Trends – October 24, 2023.

A bomb threat involving wheel-based delivery robots at an Oregon State University campus has turned out to be a prank following the reported arrest of a suspect. Officials at the campus in Corvallis, about 70 miles southwest of Portland, sent out an urgent message on Tuesday telling students to keep away from the Starship robots, which deliver food orders to students and staff across the site. […]

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