University of Pennsylvania Professor Emerita Arrested for Blocking Uber Eats Delivery Robot
Marvin, a 78-year-old professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, was arrested this week for refusing to make way for an Uber Eats delivery robot; police arrested her on charges of disorderly conduct. She said the act was a protest against companies "replacing human delivery workers with robots to increase their own profits," and she plans to contest the charges on the grounds of the right to protest guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Edwards (42866) posted on Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 22:43
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Marvin, a 78-year-old professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, was arrested this week for refusing to make way for an Uber Eats delivery robot. She said she could not remember how many times she had blocked the robot's path, describing her actions as a protest against "companies that replace human delivery workers with robots in order to increase their own profits." Marvin said she stayed at the scene for "quite a long time," and that police came over and asked her to move aside so the robot could complete its delivery. After she refused multiple times, police arrested her for disorderly conduct. Marvin was not deterred by the arrest and plans to contest the charge on the grounds of "the right to protest guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." She intends to keep blocking Uber Eats robots and to talk with passersby who ask her curiously what she is doing.
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