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The animals are increasingly stressed from changes in food availability, shipping traffic, noise pollution, waste discharge, disease and plastic debris, and their ability to avoid and survive these impediments is diminishing.

Serve Robotics said in a statement that its robots are designed and tested to safely navigate around mobility devices such as wheelchairs and to avoid being an impediment to people with disabilities.

A group called the Runyon Canyon Guardians is now calling for officials to halt the bathroom project, calling it “fiscally irresponsible” and a public safety impediment.

"I didn't even respond to them, because I just thought that's not good enough, you haven't shown a true interest… to educate your team on speech impediments."

In Indonesia, corruption has been a serious impediment to the country's development, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.