Dr. Barry, a former astronaut and “Survivor” contestant with an M.D. and a Ph. D., has put his ideas into action. He has a robot at home that can take a pizza from the delivery person, pay for it and carry it into the kitchen.
“You have the robot say, ‘Take the 20 and leave the pizza on top of me,’ ” Dr. Barry says. “I get the pizza about a third of the time.”
From In the Singularity University, Humans are so yesterday by Ashlee Vance in the New York Times.
Now they just need to add a camera to the bot to thwart the pizza delivery thieves that take the money and don’t leave the pizza.