New robotic food delivery equipment being used in a Sheffield suburb has been vandalised with spray paint.
A vertical pole with an orange flag on one of the robots – designed to make it visible as it travels the streets of Meersbrook making deliveries for the food-ordering app Uber Eats – was bent to the ground.
A charging station alongside a scout hut has also been defaced and traffic cones were placed behind the robots to prevent them from moving.
Starship Technologies, which operates the equipment, said: “It’s a shame to see a few people spoiling things for everyone else and damaging a new service for local people.”
