In 1979, the boundary between industrial progress and tragedy blurred at a Michigan Ford plant. Robert Williams became the first person to lose his life to a machine, marking a grim milestone in ...

A Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot makes its way amid the traffic on February 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mark Chaney was using his mobility scooter in Los Angeles when he was nearly ...

“If you’re not testing [delivery robots] against wheelchairs, scooters or walkers, then you’re not designing for everyone," Mark Chaney said Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A man with cerebral palsy who uses a mobility scooter to travel experienced a blood-boiling episode when he kept getting cut off — by a robot. In a video that’s gone viral on social media, Mark Chaney ...