Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing
28th August 2026
BBC, a Voice of the Crust.
The “dough feeder”. The sauce and cheese modules – even the pepperoni-sprinkler. All lay still.
A now defunct duo of robots were supposed to be churning out pizzas at a Moto Pizza restaurant in Seattle.
However, in May the pair were rendered “basically useless” when their supplier, Picnic, abruptly shut down. Technical support for the robots evaporated at that moment, says Lee Kindell, founder and chief executive of Moto Pizza.
Welcome to the real world.
He was left wondering what to do with the $160,000 (£118,000), cabinet-like machines and whether buying in pizza bots was really worth it.
“I don’t know if I want to do a partnership again because of the failures,” he says.
Bear in mind that the Narrative Media regard AI and robots as an existential threat to all that is Right and Good second only to Donald Trump.
People who invest in immature technologies hoping to steal a march on their competitors are always SO SURPRISED when they crash and burn.