On a Lincoln Park sidewalk in Chicago, a software deployment error sent a fleet of Coco delivery robots into a collective standstill, turning a corporate logistics glitch into a public confrontation with the quiet automation of city life. The scene — robots piled up, pedestrians rerouted, a video spreading across the internet — became something larger than a technical failure: a moment in which the unresolved bargain between private machines and shared public space was made visible. Cities have long absorbed new technologies into their streets, but the question of who those streets ultimately