Two class‑action lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court on Oct. 9, 2026, asserting that the operators of food‑delivery robots scanned and stored customers' facial and hand biometric data without consent, in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The filings target the robot companies Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics, which run sidewalk delivery robots in Chicago. The suits claim the robots captured biometric information while delivering orders, constituting a breach of the state privacy law.