Residents Rage Against Fleet of Delivery Robots Taking Over Chicago
Joe Wilkins
created: Nov. 29, 2025, 3:30 p.m. | updated: Dec. 9, 2025, 3:14 p.m.
While Chicago residents deal with the urgent threat of federal immigration agents rampaging through their neighborhoods, hundreds of unwanted side characters have managed to worm their way in seemingly overnight.
Over the past few months, swarms of delivery robots have taken over the city’s sidewalks, prompting locals to call for them to be shut them down.
The delivery robots are part of a pilot program engineered by two companies: Coco, operating pink bots sporting obnoxious flag poles, and Serve, whose green and white bots sports two LED eyes.
Updated to specify that Anthony Jonas was struck by a Serve robot, not a Coco robot.
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