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Source: Compiled by Shenzhen-Hong Kong Online
Reports on May 28 reveal that groups of young people in the United States have been violently attacking delivery robots on public streets. Some knock the robots over, while others attempt to load them into car trunks and drive away. Footage shows delivery robots surrounded by crowds of teenagers, who kick and punch the machines. Some even sit on top of moving robots, pinning them to a halt. Worse still, several young men jointly force a robot into the trunk of a roadside vehicle and leave the scene. Throughout the incidents, the perpetrators grin and flash victory signs to phone cameras, acting unashamed as if celebrating a hunt.
Violence escalated in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, where assailants kicked, toppled and spray-painted the robots, and even threw one off a bridge. More than 4,000 local residents signed a petition demanding to ban such robots from public roads. Philadelphia has also witnessed similar disturbing scenes. Just three weeks after Uber Eats rolled out its delivery robots, multiple units were squeezed, vandalized and kicked maliciously. Some people lay in wait along the robots’ routes, kicking them over before walking away laughing. Videos documenting these acts have amassed millions of likes and shares across social media. The normalization of violence as entertainment and the incentives for vandalism driven by online traffic are the most alarming issues here.
It would be a mistake to dismiss such behavior as mere childish pranks. A prevailing view among American adults holds that working adults dominate the streets by day, while young people take over at night. Gradually, this Generation Z group has gained de facto control over public security in many neighborhoods.
Violent crimes involving young people, including armed brawls and shootings, have reached shocking levels in major U.S. cities. Statistics released by the New York City Police Department in 2025 showed that teenagers accounted for 14% of shooting victims and as high as 18% of perpetrators across the city. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated that these figures are unprecedented since the department began tracking relevant data in 2018. In Hermosa Beach, two minors assaulted an adult man until he lost consciousness and were subsequently charged with felony assault.
A deeper concern lies in why these juveniles act with such impunity on the streets — the answer lies in legal loopholes that offer them excessive protection.
Under the U.S. judicial system, minors are subject to extremely lenient regulations. According to the Interstate Commission for Juvenile Justice, in 44 U.S. states, most juvenile offenders remain under the jurisdiction of juvenile courts until they turn 18. This means a teenager who vandalizes an expensive delivery robot or steals one by loading it into a car trunk may only receive a confidential juvenile reprimand. Such records can even be sealed and cleared once the individual reaches adulthood.
The lack of a minimum age of criminal accountability is even more troubling. Long-standing state laws in Florida exempt children as young as seven from full criminal liability. Some regions including Idaho set extremely low age thresholds even for serious crimes such as murder. Notably, 28 U.S. states have no statutory minimum age for criminal responsibility at all. In extreme cases, if a young child snatches a pedestrian’s bag and threatens the victim, the perpetrator may face no legal consequences due to their age, leaving victims and police with no recourse.
Additionally, California’s Proposition 47 has created a permissive environment for street vandalism and theft. Enacted in 2014, the measure downgrades theft of property valued below $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor. Police have limited authority to arrest offenders who are not caught red-handed. Those convicted of such misdemeanors face a maximum jail term of six months or a $1,000 fine. Given that delivery robots are worth thousands of US dollars, acts of vandalism are often classified as minor offenses. Perpetrators receive light penalties, and many minors are released on probation or after a warning, only to return to target robots again.
Combined with lenient juvenile laws and reluctant prosecution of misdemeanors, these rules have fostered a growing group of unruly actors operating outside effective legal constraints on U.S. streets.
Youth gangs in New York specifically recruit members aged 14 to 17 to carry out armed robberies and assaults. These teenagers act recklessly, knowing they face few serious repercussions. Since damaging high-tech robots carries negligible legal risks, many target the machines out of resentment, viewing them as replacements for human delivery workers. A climate of fear has consequently taken hold.
Pedestrians now steer clear of roaming robots and risk retaliation if they try to stop teenage vandals. Following a series of unprovoked assaults by minors in Hermosa Beach in recent years, most adults choose to walk away when encountering groups of young people. When convenience stores are looted at night, shop owners often prioritize minimizing losses rather than calling police, knowing such cases are unlikely to result in formal charges.
Nevertheless, technological progress in autonomous delivery continues to advance globally, unaffected by such incidents. Delivery robots and drone delivery services are being rapidly deployed across dozens of countries including China, South Korea and Finland.
Global capital is pouring massive investments into autonomous delivery solutions. A major research report by Barclays predicts that if current delivery costs remain steady, the per-delivery cost for robots will drop to just $1, compared with $9 to $10 for human couriers in the United States. Major platforms are accelerating expansion. Drones independently developed by China’s Meituan have been put into large-scale commercial operation in Dubai and other regions. Starship Technologies has completed over 10 million autonomous deliveries worldwide, covering more than 22 million kilometers. During the global pandemic, Serve Robotics expanded its robot fleet in the U.S. from 100 units to 2,000 across 20 cities in a short period.
Forecasts indicate that if robotic delivery captures a 10% market share within the next 5 to 10 years, the industry will generate approximately $16 billion in annual profits for global food delivery platforms. As Chinese and international tech giants deepen application scenarios at home and overseas, attacks on delivery robots on U.S. streets may eventually become a thing of the past, long before human delivery jobs are fully replaced by automation.
What unfolds is a bizarre standoff: on one side, unstoppable global expansion of automated delivery backed by capital and technology; on the other, young people exploiting legal loopholes to commit vandalism with impunity. This contrast exposes the lag and ineffectiveness of America’s legal system amid rapid technological evolution.
On university campuses in Shanghai, China, delivery robots safely and efficiently transport food to dormitories without facing any abuse. On park trails in Singapore, robots coexist harmoniously with pedestrians, with built-in protocols to yield to people. In the U.S., the robot forced into a car trunk keeps its cameras running, leaving people to wonder whether its counterparts will repeatedly suffer the same fate.
History shows that legal flaws will eventually be fixed, yet the technological transformation of the world is irreversible. If U.S. youth and the country’s legal system continue to tolerate rampant violence and vandalism, the consequences will extend far beyond damaged robots.
美国年轻人街头围攻外卖机器人 拳打脚踢且嬉皮笑脸，“法外狂徒”让居民闹心！
来源：深港在线综合
5月28日消息，美国街头出现多名年轻人暴力围攻外卖机器人的现象。有人直接将机器人推倒，还有人试图将机器人塞进后备箱带走。画面中，一台送外卖的机器人被一群青少年团团围住。有人朝它拳打脚踢，有人一屁股坐上机器人顶部，将正在行驶中的它压得动弹不得，更有甚者，几个年轻男子合力将一台机器人硬塞进路边汽车的后备箱，扬长而去。全程嬉皮笑脸，对着手机镜头比出胜利手势——不遮掩，不心虚，仿佛在炫耀一场轻松的狩猎。芝加哥林肯公园社区的情况更为激烈。反抗者踢踹、推倒、涂鸦，甚至将机器人直接扔下桥。当地超过4000名居民发起联署请愿，要求叫停这类机器人上路。费城同样触目惊心。Uber Eats的配送机器人上线仅三周，便有多台遭到陌生人挤压、涂鸦和恶意踢踹。有人专门蹲守在机器人的必经路线上，一脚将其踹翻后大笑离去。那些用来记录"战果"的视频，累计收获了数百万次点赞与转发。暴力被娱乐化，破坏被流量奖赏——这才是最值得警惕的部分。
如果你以为这群年轻人只是恶作剧一时兴起，那就大错特错了。美国成年人私下里流传着一种共识：白天的美国属于上班族，夜晚的美国属于他们，而街头巷尾的治安话语权则渐渐掌握在这群“Z世代小王”手中。
在美国的许多核心城市，年轻人持枪斗殴甚至枪击的犯罪统计数据令人触目惊心。纽约警察局2025年公布的数据显示，全美纽约市枪击案中，竟有14%的受害者和高达18%的行凶者都是青少年。纽约警察局局长杰西卡·蒂施无奈表示，自从2018年跟踪相关数据以来，这两项数据的占比“前所未见”。在赫莫萨海滩，两名未成年人更是将一名成年男性袭击至当场昏迷，并很快被指控犯有重罪袭击。
更令人后背发凉的是，为何这些未成年人在街头敢如此肆无忌惮？答案藏在法律的“灰色保护伞”中。
在美国司法体系中，未成年人往往享受着一张极其宽松的法律保障网。根据美国跨州未成年人司法委员会的统计，在44个州内，大多数涉案的未成年罪犯可一直交由少年法院处理直至年满18周岁。这意味着什么？这意味着一个青少年今天恶意损毁一台价值不菲的送餐机器人，明天偷偷塞进私人车尾箱，他的司法档案上可能只会多出一张“不公开”的少年训诫令，且档案能被他成年后随手“解锁”。
更加令人细思极恐的是犯罪年龄的“豁免无下限”。在佛罗里达州，经年累月的州立法，允许一个年仅7岁的儿童无需承担完全刑事责任。而像爱达荷州在内的一些地区，竟然甚至对严重犯罪如谋杀案，对于涉案低龄的未成年也设有极低的年龄线。更让人瞠目结舌的是，在美国有28个州对未成年犯罪居然没有规定最低追究刑事责任年龄。也就是说，即便你被一个孩子当街抢夺背包并被恐吓，这起事件在法律上很可能因为涉案者年龄过低而不予追究，受害者投诉无门，警察也束手无策。
此外，零元购（Propostition 47）现象也为街头年轻人提供了肆意破坏的温床。2014年，加州的“47号法案”将950美元以下的盗窃行为从重罪降格为轻罪，而轻罪之下，警察对并非“当场被抓现行”的案犯基本没有逮捕权限。同时，轻罪犯人定罪后坐牢不超过6个月或缴纳1000美元罚款即可了事。折算下来，一台价值数千甚至上万元人民币的外卖机器人遭到损毁，由于犯罪成本被模糊界定在轻罪范围内，歹徒们被抓后主要面对的是轻描淡写的处罚，甚至不少未成年人即使被捕，也能经缓刑或训诫后重新走上街头迎接新一轮对机器人“围猎”。
这一系列的“未成年人法律免责”与“轻罪不起诉”结合，催生了一支被誉为美国街头日渐庞大的“法外部队”。
在纽约青少年帮派中，帮派头目专门挑14到17岁的青少年入伙，让他们携带枪支做抢劫或者袭击他人的脏活，而这群涉事青少年几乎处于一种“无需承担任何后果”的无所谓心态中。既然损坏一台昂贵的高科技机器人所带来的法律风险约等于零，那为何不去破坏和报复那些似乎抢走“外卖小哥”饭碗的冰冷机械？于是，恐惧的链条就此形成。
当一个普通美国行人走在路上，要想的是如何避开随处乱串的机器人，还随时可能因为尝试阻止青少年暴行而被报复。前几年赫莫萨海滩案中几位青少年连续袭击路人，这种疯狂的愈演愈烈，导致许多成年人看到路上成群结队的未成年时，第一反应是赶紧绕道；甚至夜晚便利店被哄抢，店主第一个电话不是打给警察（反正也立不了案），而是先自掏腰包缩小损失。
然而，愤怒和恐惧终究阻挡不了科技的全球征途。在美国之外，包括中国、韩国、芬兰在内的数十个国家正大步流星地部署外卖机器人和无人机配送。
全球资本市场正疯狂为自主配送投下重注。巴克莱集团发布的重磅研报预测，若维持现有配送成本，机器人单次配送的费用将逐步降至仅1美元，而传统人力配送在美国则需要9~10美元。平台巨头们正疯狂加速布局：中国美团旗下自主研发的无人机已在迪拜等地规模化投入商业配送运营；Starship Technologies公司已陆续在全球完成超过1000万次自动交付、里程积累超过2200万公里；而在疫情全球检测周期内，仅Serve Robotics一家便将在美国投放的机器人基数从100台迅速飙升至20个城市的2000台机器人。
预测显示，如果未来5~10年机器人配送市场渗透率达到10%，那么全行业每年可为全球外卖平台创造出约160亿美元的利润空间。换句话说，随着中国与众多全球巨头在本土及海外开始深扎场景，我们很可能在全球消灭外卖骑手、配送小哥这一职业之前，早已将美国街头“暴打机器人”的打斗视为另一段过时的古早记忆。
一边是资本和技术势不可挡的全球配送攻势，另一边是美国街头那些手无寸铁却依托法律漏洞肆无忌惮的年轻“法外狂徒”。这场荒诞的对峙，反映出的却是美国法律体系在科技高速迭代中的滞后与无力。
当中国上海的大学校园里，配送机器人正安全、高效、井然有序地将外卖送达学生宿舍楼下，完全无需担心遭到拳打脚踢；当新加坡的公园小径上，机器人能够与人和谐共处，AI靠边避让行人是技术底层写满的“仁慈”。而在美国，那台惨遭“绑架”的被塞进后备箱的机器人还在高速运转摄像头，或许不知道它未来的“同胞”是否将无一例外地重演这般厄运。
人类一直以来的经验告诉我们，再极致的法律漏洞也终将被修正，但技术改变世界的大趋势是不可逆的。如果美国的年轻人以及他们背后的法律体系依旧容忍这种暴力蔓延、肆意破坏，最终输掉的，绝不是一台机器人那么简单。
Young Americans Assault Delivery Robots on Streets with Smirks: Rampant Lawlessness Troubles Locals
Source: Compiled by Shenzhen-Hong Kong Online
Reports on May 28 reveal that groups of young people in the United States have been violently attacking delivery robots on public streets. Some knock the robots over, while others attempt to load them into car trunks and drive away. Footage shows delivery robots surrounded by crowds of teenagers, who kick and punch the machines. Some even sit on top of moving robots, pinning them to a halt. Worse still, several young men jointly force a robot into the trunk of a roadside vehicle and leave the scene. Throughout the incidents, the perpetrators grin and flash victory signs to phone cameras, acting unashamed as if celebrating a hunt.
Violence escalated in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, where assailants kicked, toppled and spray-painted the robots, and even threw one off a bridge. More than 4,000 local residents signed a petition demanding to ban such robots from public roads. Philadelphia has also witnessed similar disturbing scenes. Just three weeks after Uber Eats rolled out its delivery robots, multiple units were squeezed, vandalized and kicked maliciously. Some people lay in wait along the robots’ routes, kicking them over before walking away laughing. Videos documenting these acts have amassed millions of likes and shares across social media. The normalization of violence as entertainment and the incentives for vandalism driven by online traffic are the most alarming issues here.
It would be a mistake to dismiss such behavior as mere childish pranks. A prevailing view among American adults holds that working adults dominate the streets by day, while young people take over at night. Gradually, this Generation Z group has gained de facto control over public security in many neighborhoods.
Violent crimes involving young people, including armed brawls and shootings, have reached shocking levels in major U.S. cities. Statistics released by the New York City Police Department in 2025 showed that teenagers accounted for 14% of shooting victims and as high as 18% of perpetrators across the city. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated that these figures are unprecedented since the department began tracking relevant data in 2018. In Hermosa Beach, two minors assaulted an adult man until he lost consciousness and were subsequently charged with felony assault.
A deeper concern lies in why these juveniles act with such impunity on the streets — the answer lies in legal loopholes that offer them excessive protection.
Under the U.S. judicial system, minors are subject to extremely lenient regulations. According to the Interstate Commission for Juvenile Justice, in 44 U.S. states, most juvenile offenders remain under the jurisdiction of juvenile courts until they turn 18. This means a teenager who vandalizes an expensive delivery robot or steals one by loading it into a car trunk may only receive a confidential juvenile reprimand. Such records can even be sealed and cleared once the individual reaches adulthood.
The lack of a minimum age of criminal accountability is even more troubling. Long-standing state laws in Florida exempt children as young as seven from full criminal liability. Some regions including Idaho set extremely low age thresholds even for serious crimes such as murder. Notably, 28 U.S. states have no statutory minimum age for criminal responsibility at all. In extreme cases, if a young child snatches a pedestrian’s bag and threatens the victim, the perpetrator may face no legal consequences due to their age, leaving victims and police with no recourse.
Additionally, California’s Proposition 47 has created a permissive environment for street vandalism and theft. Enacted in 2014, the measure downgrades theft of property valued below $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor. Police have limited authority to arrest offenders who are not caught red-handed. Those convicted of such misdemeanors face a maximum jail term of six months or a $1,000 fine. Given that delivery robots are worth thousands of US dollars, acts of vandalism are often classified as minor offenses. Perpetrators receive light penalties, and many minors are released on probation or after a warning, only to return to target robots again.
Combined with lenient juvenile laws and reluctant prosecution of misdemeanors, these rules have fostered a growing group of unruly actors operating outside effective legal constraints on U.S. streets.
Youth gangs in New York specifically recruit members aged 14 to 17 to carry out armed robberies and assaults. These teenagers act recklessly, knowing they face few serious repercussions. Since damaging high-tech robots carries negligible legal risks, many target the machines out of resentment, viewing them as replacements for human delivery workers. A climate of fear has consequently taken hold.
Pedestrians now steer clear of roaming robots and risk retaliation if they try to stop teenage vandals. Following a series of unprovoked assaults by minors in Hermosa Beach in recent years, most adults choose to walk away when encountering groups of young people. When convenience stores are looted at night, shop owners often prioritize minimizing losses rather than calling police, knowing such cases are unlikely to result in formal charges.
Nevertheless, technological progress in autonomous delivery continues to advance globally, unaffected by such incidents. Delivery robots and drone delivery services are being rapidly deployed across dozens of countries including China, South Korea and Finland.
Global capital is pouring massive investments into autonomous delivery solutions. A major research report by Barclays predicts that if current delivery costs remain steady, the per-delivery cost for robots will drop to just $1, compared with $9 to $10 for human couriers in the United States. Major platforms are accelerating expansion. Drones independently developed by China’s Meituan have been put into large-scale commercial operation in Dubai and other regions. Starship Technologies has completed over 10 million autonomous deliveries worldwide, covering more than 22 million kilometers. During the global pandemic, Serve Robotics expanded its robot fleet in the U.S. from 100 units to 2,000 across 20 cities in a short period.
Forecasts indicate that if robotic delivery captures a 10% market share within the next 5 to 10 years, the industry will generate approximately $16 billion in annual profits for global food delivery platforms. As Chinese and international tech giants deepen application scenarios at home and overseas, attacks on delivery robots on U.S. streets may eventually become a thing of the past, long before human delivery jobs are fully replaced by automation.
What unfolds is a bizarre standoff: on one side, unstoppable global expansion of automated delivery backed by capital and technology; on the other, young people exploiting legal loopholes to commit vandalism with impunity. This contrast exposes the lag and ineffectiveness of America’s legal system amid rapid technological evolution.
On university campuses in Shanghai, China, delivery robots safely and efficiently transport food to dormitories without facing any abuse. On park trails in Singapore, robots coexist harmoniously with pedestrians, with built-in protocols to yield to people. In the U.S., the robot forced into a car trunk keeps its cameras running, leaving people to wonder whether its counterparts will repeatedly suffer the same fate.
History shows that legal flaws will eventually be fixed, yet the technological transformation of the world is irreversible. If U.S. youth and the country’s legal system continue to tolerate rampant violence and vandalism, the consequences will extend far beyond damaged robots.
美国年轻人街头围攻外卖机器人 拳打脚踢且嬉皮笑脸，“法外狂徒”让居民闹心！
来源：深港在线综合
5月28日消息，美国街头出现多名年轻人暴力围攻外卖机器人的现象。有人直接将机器人推倒，还有人试图将机器人塞进后备箱带走。画面中，一台送外卖的机器人被一群青少年团团围住。有人朝它拳打脚踢，有人一屁股坐上机器人顶部，将正在行驶中的它压得动弹不得，更有甚者，几个年轻男子合力将一台机器人硬塞进路边汽车的后备箱，扬长而去。全程嬉皮笑脸，对着手机镜头比出胜利手势——不遮掩，不心虚，仿佛在炫耀一场轻松的狩猎。芝加哥林肯公园社区的情况更为激烈。反抗者踢踹、推倒、涂鸦，甚至将机器人直接扔下桥。当地超过4000名居民发起联署请愿，要求叫停这类机器人上路。费城同样触目惊心。Uber Eats的配送机器人上线仅三周，便有多台遭到陌生人挤压、涂鸦和恶意踢踹。有人专门蹲守在机器人的必经路线上，一脚将其踹翻后大笑离去。那些用来记录"战果"的视频，累计收获了数百万次点赞与转发。暴力被娱乐化，破坏被流量奖赏——这才是最值得警惕的部分。
如果你以为这群年轻人只是恶作剧一时兴起，那就大错特错了。美国成年人私下里流传着一种共识：白天的美国属于上班族，夜晚的美国属于他们，而街头巷尾的治安话语权则渐渐掌握在这群“Z世代小王”手中。
在美国的许多核心城市，年轻人持枪斗殴甚至枪击的犯罪统计数据令人触目惊心。纽约警察局2025年公布的数据显示，全美纽约市枪击案中，竟有14%的受害者和高达18%的行凶者都是青少年。纽约警察局局长杰西卡·蒂施无奈表示，自从2018年跟踪相关数据以来，这两项数据的占比“前所未见”。在赫莫萨海滩，两名未成年人更是将一名成年男性袭击至当场昏迷，并很快被指控犯有重罪袭击。
更令人后背发凉的是，为何这些未成年人在街头敢如此肆无忌惮？答案藏在法律的“灰色保护伞”中。
在美国司法体系中，未成年人往往享受着一张极其宽松的法律保障网。根据美国跨州未成年人司法委员会的统计，在44个州内，大多数涉案的未成年罪犯可一直交由少年法院处理直至年满18周岁。这意味着什么？这意味着一个青少年今天恶意损毁一台价值不菲的送餐机器人，明天偷偷塞进私人车尾箱，他的司法档案上可能只会多出一张“不公开”的少年训诫令，且档案能被他成年后随手“解锁”。
更加令人细思极恐的是犯罪年龄的“豁免无下限”。在佛罗里达州，经年累月的州立法，允许一个年仅7岁的儿童无需承担完全刑事责任。而像爱达荷州在内的一些地区，竟然甚至对严重犯罪如谋杀案，对于涉案低龄的未成年也设有极低的年龄线。更让人瞠目结舌的是，在美国有28个州对未成年犯罪居然没有规定最低追究刑事责任年龄。也就是说，即便你被一个孩子当街抢夺背包并被恐吓，这起事件在法律上很可能因为涉案者年龄过低而不予追究，受害者投诉无门，警察也束手无策。
此外，零元购（Propostition 47）现象也为街头年轻人提供了肆意破坏的温床。2014年，加州的“47号法案”将950美元以下的盗窃行为从重罪降格为轻罪，而轻罪之下，警察对并非“当场被抓现行”的案犯基本没有逮捕权限。同时，轻罪犯人定罪后坐牢不超过6个月或缴纳1000美元罚款即可了事。折算下来，一台价值数千甚至上万元人民币的外卖机器人遭到损毁，由于犯罪成本被模糊界定在轻罪范围内，歹徒们被抓后主要面对的是轻描淡写的处罚，甚至不少未成年人即使被捕，也能经缓刑或训诫后重新走上街头迎接新一轮对机器人“围猎”。
这一系列的“未成年人法律免责”与“轻罪不起诉”结合，催生了一支被誉为美国街头日渐庞大的“法外部队”。
在纽约青少年帮派中，帮派头目专门挑14到17岁的青少年入伙，让他们携带枪支做抢劫或者袭击他人的脏活，而这群涉事青少年几乎处于一种“无需承担任何后果”的无所谓心态中。既然损坏一台昂贵的高科技机器人所带来的法律风险约等于零，那为何不去破坏和报复那些似乎抢走“外卖小哥”饭碗的冰冷机械？于是，恐惧的链条就此形成。
当一个普通美国行人走在路上，要想的是如何避开随处乱串的机器人，还随时可能因为尝试阻止青少年暴行而被报复。前几年赫莫萨海滩案中几位青少年连续袭击路人，这种疯狂的愈演愈烈，导致许多成年人看到路上成群结队的未成年时，第一反应是赶紧绕道；甚至夜晚便利店被哄抢，店主第一个电话不是打给警察（反正也立不了案），而是先自掏腰包缩小损失。
然而，愤怒和恐惧终究阻挡不了科技的全球征途。在美国之外，包括中国、韩国、芬兰在内的数十个国家正大步流星地部署外卖机器人和无人机配送。
全球资本市场正疯狂为自主配送投下重注。巴克莱集团发布的重磅研报预测，若维持现有配送成本，机器人单次配送的费用将逐步降至仅1美元，而传统人力配送在美国则需要9~10美元。平台巨头们正疯狂加速布局：中国美团旗下自主研发的无人机已在迪拜等地规模化投入商业配送运营；Starship Technologies公司已陆续在全球完成超过1000万次自动交付、里程积累超过2200万公里；而在疫情全球检测周期内，仅Serve Robotics一家便将在美国投放的机器人基数从100台迅速飙升至20个城市的2000台机器人。
预测显示，如果未来5~10年机器人配送市场渗透率达到10%，那么全行业每年可为全球外卖平台创造出约160亿美元的利润空间。换句话说，随着中国与众多全球巨头在本土及海外开始深扎场景，我们很可能在全球消灭外卖骑手、配送小哥这一职业之前，早已将美国街头“暴打机器人”的打斗视为另一段过时的古早记忆。
一边是资本和技术势不可挡的全球配送攻势，另一边是美国街头那些手无寸铁却依托法律漏洞肆无忌惮的年轻“法外狂徒”。这场荒诞的对峙，反映出的却是美国法律体系在科技高速迭代中的滞后与无力。
当中国上海的大学校园里，配送机器人正安全、高效、井然有序地将外卖送达学生宿舍楼下，完全无需担心遭到拳打脚踢；当新加坡的公园小径上，机器人能够与人和谐共处，AI靠边避让行人是技术底层写满的“仁慈”。而在美国，那台惨遭“绑架”的被塞进后备箱的机器人还在高速运转摄像头，或许不知道它未来的“同胞”是否将无一例外地重演这般厄运。
人类一直以来的经验告诉我们，再极致的法律漏洞也终将被修正，但技术改变世界的大趋势是不可逆的。如果美国的年轻人以及他们背后的法律体系依旧容忍这种暴力蔓延、肆意破坏，最终输掉的，绝不是一台机器人那么简单。