An undrivable Zoox robot hoist onto a Zoox branded tow truck (non-robotic):
Grant and California, San Francisco
~3 blocks (~1000 ft) from the Zoox free ride "lounge" at Grant & Sutter.
I used to joke we'd know AV cos were serious about scaling when they bought tow trucks. Welp.
OP: x.joshnkeezy
Don't see this very often, a building being demolished in North Beach:
659 Union Street (aka the Coit Liquor building), San Francisco
A fire gutted that building years ago. The shell was reinforced pending demolition, which due to SF regs & NBers being NBers took awhile.
OP: tiktok.malena.ann
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a telop may've helped it & them escape
they may've called telops
maybe Waymo should geofence carwashes
Among Moxi's problems/defects: a looping bug.
Waymo's new national TV ad claims their not safe enough for fwys tech is 10X safer than ppl who are safe enough to drive fwys.
Waymo's paying for "billboards...in...places that don’t yet permit its driverless cars in their streets."
Yet, still shutdown in San Antonio.
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Serve Robotics bought Moxi earlier this year. Uber wisely spun off Serve soon after acquiring it as part of their Postmates acquisition.
Last quarter (2026Q1), Serve's revenue covered ~6% of their expenses.
At their Q1 burn/loss rate, Serve has ~year of cash left.
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An oblivious and/or inept Waymo robot impeding 1st responders et al is never a good look, common as it has been for the past few years.
Hard to tell if it was waiting for a pick up, failed, or something else.
Exact location, circumstances, & duration unknown.
OP: tiktok.ibesuper, Austin
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Evidently, Waymo converted a pair of downtown LA parking lots into charging depots using natural gas, similar to what they recently did in Austin.
1000 block of Main St, Los Angeles
Waymo solves the critical urban problems of not enough cars and fossil fuel consumption.
OP: x.TheRideshareGuy
This commonly held "theory" is v wrong. Waymo robots don't "learn" in the human sense. They are >99% ML/AI trained in simulations not from real life.
Unlike Waymo robots, human drivers learn from each other in real time, as demonstrated in their superior responses to flooding and road construction.
A Serve robot somehow got onto an LA fwy:
110 at 7th St, Los Angeles
~600 feet down and near the end of the on ramp from 8th St. I guess either someone put it there or it had an adventurous last few minutes before stopping.
OP: tiktok.user9367194
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"Saying goodbye to Moxi, the AI-powered robot"
ICU Nurse Atalia Lapkin tells @proofnews.bsky.social about her experience with the robot that was so high maintenance that it required a human handler. Eventually the robot was retired and the nurses wrote an obituary for it.
Moxi's maker was acquired earlier this year by an autonomous robots food delivery company whose CEO told investors on a recent call that Moxi will help them collect more indoor navigation data, which can make their navigation models better.
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Diligent Robotics is a startup that builds robots designed to assist in hospitals by delivering lab samples, supplies, and other tasks. The deal values Diligent's common stock at $29 million.
Theoretically, all Waymo taxis learn from the errors of all other Waymo taxis. Human drivers each make their own mistakes.
As someone starting to plan for retirement (w/the eventual loss of safe driving ability), I want Waymo to work!
I love driving, but realize it's not safe later in life.
