Person suspected of making food delivery robot bomb threat at Oregon State University arrested

San Francisco-based Starship Technologies, which makes the robots, said in an email earlier Tuesday afternoon that a student at Oregon State sent a bomb threat through social media that involved the campus robots. — Photo by Bill Nino on Unsplash

CORVALLIS, Oregon: A person suspected of threatening to place a bomb in a robot that delivers food orders on Oregon State University's campus in Corvallis on Oct 24 has been arrested, officials said.

University officials at lunchtime sent out what they called an urgent alert on X, formerly known as Twitter, that there was a bomb threat in Starship food delivery robots.