iWok uses automated woks with pre-programmed recipes to create its menu items on demand.

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Six-wheeled delivery robots weaving through Atlanta sidewalks have been turning heads and going viral, but they're not lost. They're part of a growing wave of autonomous delivery robots now making ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

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Peyton Perry heard a rumor that delivery robots would be coming to campus when she was a student at Fairfield University. Soon after, she saw her first robot at a campus Starbucks. She ordered food ...

Food delivery robots carrying everything from pizza to hamburgers are trying their luck on city streets and college campuses. It’s not clear if it is the future or a hilarious misstep. Visitors to ...

A food delivery robot stops outside a building in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Hundreds of little robots __ knee-high and ...

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