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call me crazy but I don't want robots in charge of my food I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update this news may be hard for some of you to swallow but Domino's Pizza is not a pizza company it is a technology company you may have not realized it but for years now Domino's has experimented with high-tech ways to give cheese lovers their fix instead of inventing new types of pizza related food or putting other foods inside of pizzas Domino's is a pioneer in another area getting that food to our home in high-tech ways most recently it allows us to tweet out our order with an emoji or just speak the order to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and like all tech companies Domino's also got into the car business it made its own special delivery vehicle the 2016 DXP with a built-in warming oven and it's not a joke these cars are on the streets in some major metro areas but now the company may have gone too far the Domino's team in Australia has unveiled the first pizza delivery robot named drew for Domino's robotic unit this prototype was based off military technology and it will roll down your neighborhood keeping your Pizza warm inside until it gets to your door years ago the only real Pizza crisis our world faced was a creature called the noid and we were all instructed to do what we could to avoid it but now there will be pizza robots roaming the streets and maybe even pizza bots in the skies Domino's also experimented with drone delivery I guess humanoid delivery robots are the next step Boston Dynamics creator of the two legged Atlas robot has shown that its Terminator Eska machine can maintain balance walking in all sorts of environments and it can lift boxes Google's parent company alphabet oversees Boston Dynamics and there are reports it wants to sell the robot division to a new owner bloomberg reports that Toyota or Amazon may be interested but don't be surprised if it goes to a company like Domino's or maybe even another food establishment the head executive of fast food burger chains Carl's jr. and Hardees told Business Insider that he wants to look into having robots run everything so you can order pay and pick up the food without ever seeing a person if we put machines in charge of our food it'll make their uprising against humanity that much easier that's it for this tech news update you can head to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey