An elderly woman was shockingly led away in cuffs after blocking a delivery robot in protest of machines taking away jobs from humans.

Carolyn Marvin, 78, was leaving her flu shot appointment in Philadelphia when she was confronted by the new-age machine.

Bystanders filmed the interaction after the senior stood in front of the Uber delivery bot which prompted a response from police officers. She allegedly refused to move out of the way of the machine, preventing it from completing its delivery.Top of Form

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Philly police responded to reports of a disturbance around 1.16pm on Wednesday and they said Marvin refused to move despite being asked multiple times.

The University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus was then surrounded and arrested by three police officers under the charge of disorderly conduct.

Marvin who said that she was executing her First Amendment rights. “I think it’s my First Amendment right to publicly demonstrate on a sidewalk to protest against delivery robots,” .

The senior said her protest stems from fears that robots are “taking the jobs of human delivery workers.” She revealed that it is not her first time blocking such deliveries.

“I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward,” she said.

Such robots have been dubbed “the future of delivery” by Uber Eats and thousands of the machines are already in operation across the US for various companies and are set to rise.

Marvin was issued a criminal violation notice for the offense, cops confirmed.