Artisanal pizza -- with a robot's personal touch - The Boston Globe

When robots inevitably take over our planet, as the dystopian vision of science fiction writers foretells, we'll lose our jobs, our freedom, our humanity. But take comfort in one thing the robots will provide for us lowly carbon-based life-forms: artisanal pizza. They're already making it in a commercial kitchen in the heart of Silicon Valley: Two robots named Pepe and Giorgio squirt sauce on dough, and another robot, Marta, spreads it. A robotic arm named Bruno puts the pizza in the oven. They don't operate independently from humans yet -- two or three people still load the dough onto the conveyor and sprinkle cheese and toppings -- but Zume Pizza in Mountain View expects to be fully automated by spring, delivering made-to-order, customizable pizzas in as little as seven minutes.