Robots out of work as automated businesses close in Bay Area


A robot placing a pizza into an oven at Zume Pizza in Mountain View, California. A Silicon Valley company that used robots to make its pizzas closed this week and three coffee shops in downtown San Francisco that used robots as baristas also shuttered. — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: It has been a bad week for robots in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A Silicon Valley company that used robots to make its pizzas closed this week, and three coffee shops in downtown San Francisco that used robots as baristas also shuttered.

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