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Chowbotics Salad Robot, Sally
Meet Sally, the salad-making robot.
(Sally the sale-making robot video)
SF readers have been hungry for news of robotic chefs running restaurants ever since Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about automated restaurants in his 1912 novel A Princess of Mars. Anthony Boucher wrote about a robot chef in his 1943 short story Robinc.
Via Chowbotics.
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