“Oh there’s my food, good. Oh it’s on some sort of robot table? Hmm, that’s a weired looking thing. Well it’s on it’s way. Man I’m hungry. Is it here yet? nope, it’s a quarter of the way. That’s like a twenty foot stretch between here and there. I bet I could walk that far in three seconds. I think it’s been a minute already and… wait a second where is that thing, I’m starving! Oh it’s getting a little closer now. I want my soup, dangit! Oh it’s halfway here. That thing has small wheels… I think in about another minute I’ll have my food. I thought this was a fast food place? I want a refund.”

Good idea, but a really bad design. Too much processing power going into it’s Segway balancing act, when with two drivers and a trailing wheel to maintain balance, it can go several times as fast will less processing.

Pretty cool. That “inverted pendulum” is really awesome, gives a strong effect of a human standing on legs. But, hmm, this is a restaurant, right? What will happen, if somehow smashes into the robot or incidentially hit him with his ars or so. Wouldn’t the fall robot just turn over?

I’d love to see the out-takes on this :-)