These 1980s robot waiters were real, but they were terrible at their job
In 1983 Pasadena, you could have Chinese food delivered to your table by robot. Yes, it seemed the future of robot servants had finally arrived — or it would have, if the robots weren’t so much trouble. Shayne Hayashi, owner of Pasadena’s Two Panda Deli, purchased the Japanese robots Tanbo R-1 and Tanbo R-2 for…
