A Silicon Valley Startup Is Building Pizza-Making Robots

A Silicon Valley startup is trying to disrupt the made-to-order pizza industry -- an industry I really didn't think needed disrupting -- with pizza-making robots. You can go watch the robots in action over at Bloomberg. The pizzeria, Zume Pizza, was founded by one-time Zynga president Alex Garden (the maker of Farmville), who tells Bloomberg that he hopes the company becomes the Amazon of food. The pizza starts with a human chef who rolls out the raw dough and puts it on a conveyor belt. Marta, robot number one, spurts tomato sauce onto the disk and smears it around with what looks like a miniature floor buffer attached to a matrix of metal tubes.