The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week unanimously passed new regulations that limit companies to three robots each; limit the city to nine robots total. The new law also confine robots to industrial areas where there are few people. So no robot coffee lady for those of you working in the city by the bay
Plus robots being tested on city sidewalks can go no faster than 3 mph, and a human must be present to monitor the machine.
San Francisco Supervisor Norman Yee and supporters originally wanted to ban robots
This new regulation seem to be driven by concerns over automation stealing jobs away from humans. (Supervisor Yee must like wooden shoes)
“As more and more people start to lose jobs to automation you’ll see this kind of response”
Vanderbilt Computer Science Professor Douglas Schmidt told the San Francisco Chronicle.
