When a customer orders kung pow chicken at the new iWok restaurant by the Texas Medical Center, a robotic system sends small white bowls of pre-cut ingredients to sit next to an electric wok. A metal ...

McDonald's tested humanoid robots from Keenon Robotics at a Shanghai location, where they greeted customers and delivered food in a short pilot program.

Fried rice, stir-fried lobster and risotto with black truffles all made using Robby, a robot wok made by Next Robot. (Chiara Alexa / For The Times) One of the best dishes I ate last month was a paper ...

Automation has made its way into restaurant kitchens. Planet Money looks at what the effects of automation have been historically — and watches a robot wok in action to see how it may change things.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food is cooked at iWok, a new fast-casual Asian restaurant that uses robots to make the food and boba drinks, in Houston, Thursday ...