They have been hailed as ushering in a brave new world of hassle free shopping, delivering door to door with hi-tech efficiency and without the expense and congestion of courier vans.

But as in all good dystopian fantasies the delivery robots of Cambridge appear to be encountering all the mundane daily problems faced by humans.

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