Councillors approved amendments to the ban to leave room for potentially opening the sidewalks of Toronto back up to robots in the future.

If passed, the provision would ban all robots that operate on anything other than muscular power, are automated or remote controlled and don’t transport passengers.

Toronto – Tiny Mile, creators of the “Geoffrey” food delivery robot, today announced a partnership with foodora to provide on-demand delivery in Canada. Initial plans are to pilot the delivery robots in Toronto, but the companies said expansion to other Canadian locations is planned. The Geoffrey robot, named after Geoffrey Hinton, an acclaimed computer scientist…