Robots to deliver pizza, lulling us into food-comas for eventual takeover

When this all goes awry and our few surviving ancestors trace back the origins of the robot revolution, they'll find this moment as a major milestone of The Before Time: robots delivering pizza. 

Domino's Pizza is teaming up with Starship Technologies for a pilot program that will roll out pizza delivery in Europe courtesy of a cute little robot that looks like something that would be friends with R2-D2. 

According to a Starship, the little robot – let's call him Buddy because terrifying futures always start with innocuous cuteness – will deliver Domino's pizzas to locations within a mile of select stores in a handful of Dutch and German cities.   Read more...