Humanoid beer-and-pizza-fetching robot is charmingly retro

Delivery robots are starting to hit the streets, but few do it with as much joie de vivre as a new device called the Fundroid. The gender-neutral beer-and-pizza-fetching robot, lovingly nicknamed Funnie, debuted at the Software For Artists event on Sunday in Brooklyn, New York. Funnie made its way to a nearby pizza store and bodega to order, pay for, and deliver food and beverages to the guests at nonprofit foundation Pioneer Works, which hosted the event. The Fundroid is different from other delivery bots in several ways. Not only is Funnie the first humanoid transportation robot we've seen, but it's also able to order and pay for food, instead of simply picking up and delivering a paid-for meal. There aren't any plans to make Funnie a publicly available system, though, so those hoping to get their very own bot to serve them beer and pizza shouldn't get too excited.