Moscow traffic police officers recorded that pedestrians were forced to move along the roadway due to a delivery robot blocking the sidewalk, blogger Gennady Azarov reported and provided a video from the courtroom. The traffic police considered the robot's actions a violation of clause 1.5 of the Traffic Rules of the Russian Federation, which obliges road users to act safely, without creating harm or obstacles on the road.
The court refused to accept the administrative claim and concluded that there was no corpus delicti - it was established that in this case the robot is not an obstacle in the sense in which it is provided for by the Traffic Rules.
It was previously reported that the Moscow Department of Transport has developed uniform rules for the use of delivery robots: their speed will be limited, individual numbers will be assigned and zones will be allocated for movement and parking.
Currently, about 200 courier robots operate in Moscow. Every day they deliver more than 1.5 thousand orders. Autonomous rovers operate in 13 districts of the capital, including the city center.